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We study the null controllability of three parabolic equations. The control is acting only on one of the three equations. The three equations are coupled by means of two cubic nonlinearities. The linearized control system around 0 is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Jean-Michel Coron , Jean-Philippe Guilleron

We consider a fully-discrete approximations of 1-D heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions for which we provide a controllability result. The proof of this result is based on a relaxed observability inequality for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Rodrigo Lecaros , Roberto Morales , Ariel Pérez , Sebastián Zamorano

We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of the N-dimensional heat equation in a bounded cylinder with boundary control at one end of the cylinder. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

An optimal control of a steady state thermistor problem is considered, where the convective boundary coefficient is taken as the control variable. A distinctive feature of this paper is that the problem is considered in arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Volodymyr Hrynkiv , Sergiy Koshkin

S. Hansen and E. Zuazua [SIAM J. Cont. Optim., 1995] studied the problem of exact controllability of two strings connected by a point mass with constant physical coefficients. In this paper we study the same problem with variable physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Jamel Ben Amara , Beldi Emna

We establish boundary observability and control for the fractional heat equation over arbitrary time horizons $T > 0$, within the optimal range of fractional exponents $s \in (1/2, 1)$. Our approach introduces a novel synthesis of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Umberto Biccari , Mahamadi Warma , Enrique Zuazua

This dissertation presents and prove the viability of a non-standard method for controlling the state of a quantum system by modifying its boundary conditions instead of relying on the action of external fields. The standard approach to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Aitor Balmaseda

In this work we analyse the small-time reachability properties of a nonlinear parabolic equation, by means of a bilinear control, posed on a torus of arbitrary dimension $d$. Under a saturation hypothesis on the control operators, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Alessandro Duca , Eugenio Pozzoli , Cristina Urbani

This article is devoted to analyze control properties for the heat equation with singular potential $-\mu/|x|^2$ arising at the boundary of a smooth domain $\Omega\subset \rr^N$, $N\geq 1$. This problem was firstly studied by Vancostenoble…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Cristian Cazacu

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 $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Cyril Letrouit

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Andreas Hartman , Armand Koenig

We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Matthias Täufer

We study the null-controllability of parabolic equations associated to non-autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators. When a Kalman type condition holds for some positive time $T>0$, these parabolic equations are shown to enjoy a Gevrey…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Karine Beauchard , Karel Pravda-Starov

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

In this work, a boundary control problem for the following generalized Burgers-Huxley (GBH) equation: $$u_t=\nu u_{xx}-\alpha u^{\delta}u_x+\beta u(1-u^{\delta})(u^{\delta}-\gamma), $$ where $\nu,\alpha,\beta>0,$ $1\leq\delta<\infty$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Shri Lal Raghudev Ram Singh , Manil T. Mohan

The semilinear heat equation with non-instantaneous impulses \textbf{(NII)}, memory, and delay is considered and its approximate controllability is obtained. This is done by employing a technique that avoids fixed point theorems and pulls…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Hugo Leiva , Walid Zouhair , Mozhgan entekhabi Entekhabi , Euro Lucena Delgado

This paper deals with the numerical computation of boundary null controls for the 1D wave equation with a potential. The goal is to compute an approximation of controls that drive the solution from a prescribed initial state to zero at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Nicolae Cîndea , Enrique Fernandez-Cara , Arnaud Munch

Over the past two decades, the controllability of several examples of parabolic-hyperbolic systems has been investigated. The present article is the beginning of an attempt to find a unified framework that encompasses and generalizes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Karine Beauchard , Armand Koenig , Kévin Le Balc'h

This analysis is concerned with the controllability of quantum systems in the case where the standard dipolar approximation, involving the permanent dipole moment of the system, is corrected with a polarizability term, involving the field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Nabile Boussaid , Marco Caponigro , Thomas Chambrion