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We make two remarks about the null-controllability of the heat equation with Dirichlet condition in unbounded domains. Firstly, we give a geometric necessary condition (for interior null-controllability in the Euclidean setting)which…

In this paper we consider a cascade system in non divergence form which models the interaction between two different species, the first one can be seen as a predator and the other as a prey. Both of them depend on time, on age and on space.…

In the paper, the problems of controllability and approximate controllability are studied for the control system $w_t=\frac{1}{\rho}\left(kw_x\right)_x+\gamma w$, $\left.\left(\sqrt{\frac{k}{\rho}}w_x\right)\right|_{x=0}=u$, $x>0$,…

We consider non smooth general degenerate/singular parabolic equations in non divergence form with degeneracy and singularity occurring in the interior of the spatial domain, in presence of Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. In…

We consider a parabolic problem with degeneracy in the interior of the spatial domain and Neumann boundary conditions. In particular, we will focus on the well-posedness of the problem and on Carleman estimates for the associated adjoint…

In this paper, we study the null controllability for a stochastic semilinear CahnHilliard type equation, whose semilinear term contains first and second order derivatives of solutions. To start with, an improved global Carleman estimate for…

This paper aims to provide directly the observability inequality of backward stochastic heat equations for measurable sets. As an immediate application, the null controllability of the forward heat equations is obtained. Moreover, an…

In this paper we investigate null-controllable initial states of the half heat equation controlled from a sub-arc $\omega$ of the unit circle. We also study the projection on positive frequencies of the half-heat equation. For this…

We consider the null controllability problem from the exterior for the one dimensional heat equation on the interval $(0,1)$ associated with the fractional Laplace operator $(-\partial_x^2)^s$, where $0<s<1$. We show that there is a control…

Partial differential equation on networks have been widely investigated in the last decades in view of their application to quantum mechanics (Schr\"odinger type equations) or to the analysis of flexible structures (wave type equations).…

In this paper, we consider the following degenerate/singular parabolic equation $$ u_t -(x^\alpha u_{x})_x - \frac{\mu}{x^{2-\alpha}} u =0, \qquad x\in (0,1), \ t \in (0,T), $$ where $0\leq \alpha <1$ and $\mu\leq (1-\alpha)^2/4$ are two…

In this paper we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy problems. In particular, we consider a one-dimensional semilinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation in divergence…

The goal of this paper is to analyze the pointwise controllability properties of a one-dimensional degenerate/singular equation. We prove the conditions that characterize approximate and null controllability. Besides, a numerical simulation…

This paper deals with the exact controllability to the trajectories of the one--phase Stefan problem in one spatial dimension. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification and melting processes. It is assumed that the physical…

We consider the one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation $$ u_t - (x^\alpha u_x)_x =0 \qquad x\in(0,1),\ t \in (0,T) ,$$ controlled by a boundary force acting at the degeneracy point $x=0$. First we study the reachable targets at some…

We study the minimum energy null-controllability problem for differential equations with point-wise delays. For the equations of both neutral and retarded type we reduce the problem of finding the optimal control to a Volterra integral…

This paper examines the impulse controllability of degenerate singular parabolic equations through a modern framework focused on finite-time stabilization. Furthermore, we provide an explicit estimate for the exponential decay of the…

In this article, we study the null-controllability and observability properties of a bi-dimensio\-nal fluid-structure interaction system, governed by the heat equation coupled with the damped beam equation. To do so, we prove a global…

In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…

In this work, we prove a Carleman estimate for a parabolic problem which has a dissipative degenerate term. The prove relies on choose a suitable weight function that change of sign inside the control domain.