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This paper is addressed to studying the exact controllability for stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equations by two controls. One is a boundary control in the drift term and the other is an internal control in the diffusion term. By means of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Qi Lu

A popular approach to designing finite-dimensional boundary controllers for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to decompose the PDE into independent modes and focus on the dominant ones while neglecting highly damped residual modes.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Anton Selivanov , Emilia Fridman

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Ugur G. Abdulla

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 paper, we consider the exponential stabilization and observation of an unstable heat equation in a general multi-dimensional domain by combining the finite-dimensional spectral truncation technique and the recently developed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Hongyinping Feng , Pei-Hua Lang , Jiankang Liu

Solutions of a system of wave equations are constructed for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions at every regularity level. We prove that boundary observability, and thus boundary exact controllability, at some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Thomas Perrin

In this note, we give an elementary proof of the lack of null controllability for the heat equation on the half line by employing the machinery inherited by the unified transform, known also as the Fokas method. This approach also extends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Konstantinos Kalimeris , Turker Ozsari

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Ugur G. Abdulla

A new systematic approach to the construction of approximate solutions to a class of nonlinear singularly perturbed feedback control systems using the boundary layer functions especially with regard to the possible occurrence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Robert Vrabel

We study the existence of solutions for Darcy's problem coupled with the heat equation under singular forcing; the right-hand side of the heat equation corresponds to a Dirac measure. The studied model allows thermal diffusion and viscosity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 A. Allendes , G. Campaña , F. Fuica , E. Otarola

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).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Alessandro Duca , Cristina Urbani

In this paper, we present a control problem related to a semilinear differential equation with a moving singularity, i.e., the singular point depends on a parameter. The particularity of the controllability condition resides in the fact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Radu Precup , Andrei Stan , Wei-Shih Du

This paper proposes a tracking controller based on the concept of flat inputs and a dynamic compensator. Flat inputs represent a dual approach to flat outputs. In contrast to conventional flatness-based control design, the regulated output…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Jean-Francois Stumper , Ferdinand Svaricek , Ralph Kennel

The goal of quantum tracking control is to identify shaped fields to steer observable expectation values along designated time-dependent tracks. The fields are determined via an iteration-free procedure, which is based on inverting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alicia B. Magann , Tak-San Ho , Christian Arenz , Herschel A. Rabitz

This paper focuses on boundary approximate controllability under positivity constraints of a wide range of infinite-dimensional control systems. We develop frequency domain controllability criteria. Firstly, we derive a controllability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Yassine El Gantouh

Heat rectifiers would facilitate energy management operations such as cooling, or energy harvesting, but devices of practical interest are still missing. Understanding heat rectification at a fundamental level is key to help us find or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Javier Navarro , Juan Gonzalo Muga , Marisa Pons

The quantification of controllability and observability has recently received new interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A fundamental but computationally difficult problem is the placement or selection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Fabrizio L. Cortesi , Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

We study cascade coupled systems, for which our prototypical example is a 1-d heat equation coupled with a 1-d wave equation. The heat component is controlled through one boundary and the information is transmitted through another one to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Lucas Davron , Pierre Lissy , Swann Marx

We consider a linear Korteweg-de Vries equation on a bounded domain with a left Dirichlet boundary control.The controllability to the trajectories of such a system was proved in the last decade by using Carleman estimates.Here, we go a step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ivonne Rivas , Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

The modeling and simulation of heat source trajectories through phase-change materials is a relevant problem both for space exploration and for terrestrial climate research, among other fields. In space, the DLR and NASA are both interested…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Alexander Gary Zimmerman