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In this work, we establish a Carleman inequality for the heat equation with Fourier boundary conditions of the form $\partial_\nu y+by=f1_\gamma$, where the control acts on a small portion $\gamma$ of the boundary. We apply this inequality…

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In this paper we consider the null controllability for a population model depending on time, on space and on age. Moreover, the diffusion coefficient degenerate at the boundary of the space domain. The novelty of this paper is that for the…

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We consider the null-controllability of a non-local heat equation by interior $L^2(\Omega)$ controls. We confirm a conjecture of Lissy and Zuazua by showing that it is enough to assume that the kernel $k(x,\xi)$ is symmetric and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Steven Walton

We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of a 2-D heat equation with boundary control. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists in parameterizing the solution and the control by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

This paper is dedicated to approximate controllability for Grushin equation on the rectangle $(x,y) \in (-1,1) \times (0,1)$ with an inverse square potential. This model corresponds to the heat equation for the Laplace-Beltrami operator…

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In this paper we establish an observability inequality for the heat equation with bounded potentials on the whole space. Roughly speaking, such a kind of inequality says that the total energy of solutions can be controlled by the energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Yueliang Duan , Lijuan Wang , Can Zhang

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical analysis of the null controllability of a coupled ODE-heat system internally and at the boundary with Neumann boundary control. First, we establish the null controllability of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Idriss Boutaayamou , Fouad Et-tahri , Lahcen Maniar

The goal of this paper is to analyze control properties of the parabolic equation with variable coefficients in the principal part and with a singular inverse-square potential:\,$\partial_tu(x,t)-{\rm div}(p(x)\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Xue Qin , Shumin Li

We prove null controllability for linear and semilinear heat equations with dynamic boundary conditions of surface diffusion type. The results are based on a new Carleman estimate for this type of boundary conditions.

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We study the internal controllability of a wave equation with memory in the principal part, defined on the one-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}=\mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}$. We assume that the control is acting on an open subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Umberto Biccari , Sorin Micu

This paper concerns the null controllability for a class of stochastic degenerate parabolic equations. We first establish a global Carleman estimate for a linear forward stochastic degenerate equation with multiplicative noise. Using this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 M. Baroun , M. Fadili , A. Khchine , L. Maniar

We consider a linear nonlocal heat equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The non-locality is given by the presence of an integral kernel. We analyze the problem of controllability when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría

In this paper, we recover the boundary null controllability for the degenerate heat equation by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of an eligible family of state-control pairs $((u_{\varepsilon}, h_{\varepsilon}))_{\varepsilon >0}$ solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Bruno Sérgio V. Araújo , Reginaldo Demarque , Luiz Viana

This article is devoted to the study of null controllability for evolution equations that incorporate both memory and delay effects. The problem is particularly challenging due to the presence of memory integrals and delayed states, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Dev Prakash Jha , Raju K. George

We explore further controllability problems through a standard least square approach. By setting up a suitable error functional $E$, and putting $m(\ge0)$ for the infimum, we interpret approximate controllability by asking $m=0$, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Pablo Pedregal

This paper studies the memory-type null controllability of a class of one-dimensional non-autonomous degenerate parabolic equations with Volterra-type memory terms. The diffusion operator is considered in both divergence and non-divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Dev Prakash Jha , Raju K. George

We investigate uniqueness in the inverse problem of reconstructing simultaneously a spacewise conductivity function and a heat source in the parabolic heat equation from the usual conditions of the direct problem and additional information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Adriano De Cezaro , B. Tomas Johansson

This paper explores the controllability of a class of N-dimensional hyperbolic equations featuring a single interior degenerate point. Firstly, we establish the well-posedness of the equation through the application of the Hardy inequality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Donghui Yang , Weijia Wu

In this note, we give an elementary proof of the lack of null controllability for the heat equation on the half line by employing the machinery inherited by the unified transform, known also as the Fokas method. This approach also extends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Turker Ozsari

Our goal is to study controllability and observability properties of the 1D heat equation with internal control (or observation) set $\omega_{\varepsilon}=(x_{0}-\varepsilon, x_{0}+\varepsilon )$, in the limit $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$,…

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