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The article examines a linear-quadratic Neumann control problem that is governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation. Due to the non-self-adjoint nature of the linear control-to-state operator, it is necessary to independently study both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

We study the small-time local controllability (STLC) of a bilinear Schr\"odinger equation with Neumann boundary conditions near its ground state. We focus on the degenerate case where the linearized system is not controllable, necessitating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Karine Beauchard , Frédéric Marbach , Thomas Perrin

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded Lipschitz domain, where the density of the heat source is unknown in addition to the temperature and the phase transition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi

The classical one-phase Stefan problem (without surface tension) allows for a continuum of steady state solutions, given by an arbitrary (but sufficiently smooth) domain together with zero temperature. We prove global-in-time stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Mahir Hadžić , Steve Shkoller

We consider a $n \times n$ nonlinear reaction-diffusion system posed on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$. This system models reversible chemical reactions. We act on the system through $m$ controls ($1 \leq m < n$),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Kévin Le Balc'H

We study the one-dimensional stationary solutions of an integro-differential equation derived by Giacomin and Lebowitz from Kawasaki dynamics in Ising systems with Kac potentials, \cite{GiacominLebowitz}. We construct stationary solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anna De Masi , Errico Presutti , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

We discuss the feedback control problem for a two-dimensional two-phase Stefan problem. In our approach, we use a sharp interface representation in combination with mesh-movement to track the interface position. To attain a feedback…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Björn Baran , Peter Benner , Jens Saak

In this paper, we prove a local null controllability result for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations on a (smooth) bounded domain of R^3 with null Dirichlet boundary conditions. The control is distributed in an arbitrarily small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Jean-Michel Coron , Pierre Lissy

Sufficient and necessary conditions are established for controllability of affine control systems where the control is constrained to a set whose convex hull contains the origin but is not necessarily, in contrast with previously known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Jean-Baptiste Caillau , Lamberto Dell'Elce , Alesia Herasimenka , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

In this chapter we consider different approximations for the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem corresponding to the fusion process of a semi-infinite material with a temperature boundary condition at the fixed face and non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 Julieta Bollati , María F. Natale , José A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia

In this work we study the controllability and stabilization of the linearized Benjamin equation which models the unidirectional propagation of long waves in a two-fluid system where the lower fluid with greater density is infinitely deep…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Mahendra Panthee , Francisco J. Vielma Leal

A thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent surface tension and with or without kinetic undercooling is studied. It is shown that these problems generate local semiflows in well-defined state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

In this article, we study the boundary null-controllability properties of the one-dimensional linearized (around $(Q_0,V_0)$ with constants $Q_0>0, V_0>0$) compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the interval $(0,1)$ when a control function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Kuntal Bhandari , Shirshendu Chowdhury , Rajib Dutta , Jiten Kumbhakar

In this paper, we present some controllability results for linear and nonlinear phase-field systems of Caginalp type considered in a bounded interval of $\mathbb R$ when the scalar control force acts on the temperature equation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 M. González Burgos , G. Sousa-Neto

In this article, we study the control aspects of the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with Maxwell's law linearized around a constant steady state with zero velocity. We consider the linearized system with Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Sakil Ahamed , Debanjana Mitra

We consider a one-dimensional one-phase inverse Stefan problem for the heat equation. It consists in recovering a boundary influx condition from the knowledge of the position of the moving front, and the initial state. We derived a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Chifaa Ghanmi , Saloua Mani-Aouadi , Faouzi Triki

The two-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain, composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gustavo Navarro , Steve Shkoller

This article presents some controllability and stabilization results for a system of two coupled linear Schr\"odinger equations in the one-dimensional case where the state components are interacting through the Kirchhoff boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-21 K. Bhandari , R. de A. Capistrano-Filho , S. Majumdar , T. Y. Tanaka

In this paper, a one-phase Stefan-type problem for a semi-infinite material which has as its main feature a variable latent heat that depends on the power of the position and the velocity of the moving boundary is studied. Exact solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Julieta Bollati , Domingo A. Tarzia