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We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…
Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$. The null controllability properties of the equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u+\rho (\Delta)^\alpha u_t=F(x,t)$$ are studied. Let $T>0$, and assume initial conditions $(u^0,u^1)\in…
We prove controllability of the Schr\"odinger equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in any time $T > 0$ with internal control supported on nonempty, periodic, open sets. This demonstrates in particular that controllability of the Schr\"odinger…
In this paper, we consider a linear hybrid system which is composed of $N+1$ non-homogeneous thin rods connected by $N$ interior-point masses with a Dirichlet boundary condition on the left end, and Dirichlet control on the right end. Using…
This work is devoted to the control of the Fokker-Planck equation, posed on a smooth bounded domain of R^d, with a localized drift force. We prove that this equation is locally controllable to regular nonzero trajectories. Moreover, under…
In this paper we provide a complete theoretical analysis of a two-dimensional degenerate non convex singular stochastic control problem. The optimisation is motivated by a storage-consumption model in an electricity market, and features a…
In this paper we consider a linear hybrid system which composed by two non-homogeneous rods connected by a point mass and generated by the equation\bea\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \rho_{1}(x)u_{t}=(\sigma_{1}(x)u_{x})_{x}-q_{1}(x)u,&…
This paper is concerned with the null controllability for linear backward stochastic parabolic equations with dynamic boundary conditions and convection terms. Using the classical duality argument, the null controllability is obtained via…
In this paper we use a Stackelberg-Nash strategy to show the local null controllability of a semilinear parabolic equation in one-dimension defined in a non-cylindrical domain where the diffusion coefficient degenerates at one point of the…
In this paper we prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with a weighted Robin boundary condition at the left endpoint, where the potential has a singularity. We use some results from the singular…
We study the problem of optimally managing an inventory with unknown demand trend. Our formulation leads to a stochastic control problem under partial observation, in which a Brownian motion with non-observable drift can be singularly…
In this paper, we are concerned with the boundary controllability of heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. More precisely, we prove that the equation is null controllable at any positive time by means of a boundary control…
This paper deals with the null controllability of a coupled parabolic system, which is Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-Korteweg-de Vries equation coupled with heat equation through first order derivative. More precisely, we prove the null…
In this paper, we study the null and approximate controllability of a class of fully nonlocal coupled stochastic reaction--convection--diffusion systems. The system consists of two forward stochastic parabolic equations driven by general…
This paper develops an input-to-state stability (ISS) analysis of the Stefan problem with respect to an unknown heat loss. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a…
We prove nonlinear asymptotic stability of steady spheres in the two-phase Stefan problem with surface tension. Our method relies on the introduction of appropriate orthogonality conditions in conjunction with a high-order energy method.
In this paper, a backstepping control of the one-phase Stefan Problem, which is a 1-D diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE), is studied. A…
This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…
A one phase Stefan problem in nonlinear conduction is considered. The problem is shown to admit a unique solution for small times. An exact solution is obtained which is a travelling front moving with constant speed.
In this article it is proved the existence of similarity solutions for a one-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and a Robin condition at the fixed face. The temperature distribution is obtained through a…