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Despite the great success of using gradient-based controllers to stabilize rigid formations of autonomous agents in the past years, surprising yet intriguing undesirable collective motions have been reported recently when inconsistent…
We present a sufficient condition for approximate controllability of the bilinear discrete-spectrum Schr\"odinger equation exploiting the use of several controls. The controllability result extends to simultaneous controllability,…
We study the exact boundary controllability of a nonlinear coupled system of two Korteweg-de Vries equations on a bounded interval. The model describes the interactions of two weakly nonlinear gravity waves in a stratified fluid. Due to the…
We consider the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional dispersive equations with a general nonlinearity in the periodic setting. Our main hypotheses are both that the dispersive operator behaves for high frequencies as a Fourier multiplier by $…
We present an extension of some results of higher order calculus of variations and optimal control to generalized functions. The framework is the category of generalized smooth functions, which includes Schwartz distributions, while sharing…
This paper deals with the null-controllability of a system of {\em mixed parabolic-elliptic pdes} at any given time $T>0$. More precisely, we consider the \textit{Kuramoto-Sivashinsky--Korteweg-de Vries equation} coupled with a second order…
We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…
Studied here is the Kawahara equation, a fifth order Korteweg-de Vries type equation, with time-delayed internal feedback. Under suitable assumptions on the time delay coefficients we prove that solutions of this system are exponentially…
First order semi-linear coupling of scalar hypoelliptic equations of second order leads to a natural class of incompressible Navier Stokes equation systems, which encompasses systems with variable viscosity and essentially Navier Stokes…
Ideal gas dynamics can develop shock-like singularities with discontinuous density. Viscosity typically regularizes such singularities and leads to a shock structure. On the other hand, in 1d, singularities in the Hopf equation can be…
Breather solutions of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation are shown to be globally stable in a natural H^2 topology. Our proof introduces a new Lyapunov functional, at the H^2 level, which allows to describe the dynamics of small…
In this paper we establish local and global existence and uniqueness of solutions for general nonlinear evolution equations with coefficients satisfying some local monotonicity and generalized coercivity conditions. An analogous result is…
In this article, we focus on the global stabilizability problem for a class of second order uncertain stochastic control systems, where both the drift term and the diffusion term are nonlinear functions of the state variables and the…
This work is concerned about the Cauchy problem for the following generalized KdV- Burgers equation \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \partial_tu+\partial_x^3u+L_pu+u\partial_xu=0, u(0,\,x)=u_0(x). \end{array} \right.…
This work is concerned with the distributed controllability of the one-dimensional wave equation over non-cylindrical domains. The controllability in that case has been obtained in [Castro-Cindea-Munch, Controllability of the linear…
This paper is concerned with the local output feedback stabilization of a nonlinear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. The control is located at the boundary of the domain while the measurement is selected as a Neumann trace. This choice of…
We consider the cubic non-linear Schr\"odinger equation on general closed (compact without boundary) Riemannian surfaces. The problem is known to be locally well-posed in $H^s(M)$ for $s>1/2$. Global well-posedness for $s\geq 1$ follows…
The goal of this article is to show a local exact controllability to smooth (C2) trajectories for the 2-d density dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our controllability result requires some geometric condition on the ow of…
We prove optimality principles for semicontinuous bounded viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. In particular we provide a representation formula for viscosity supersolutions as value functions of suitable obstacle…
This paper provides global exponential stabilization results by means of boundary feedback control for 1-D nonlinear unstable reaction-diffusion Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with nonlinearities of superlinear growth. The class of…