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Let us consider a nonlinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation with application to climate science. After proving that the solution remains nonnegative at any time, when the initial state is nonnegative, we prove the approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Giuseppe Floridia

We consider the linear degenerate wave equation, on the interval $(0, 1)$ $$ w_{tt} - (x^\alpha w_x)_x = p(t) \mu (x) w, $$ with bilinear control $p$ and Neumann boundary conditions. We study the controllability of this nonlinear control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Piermarco Cannarsa , Patrick Martinez , Cristina Urbani

We establish a mixed observability inequality for a class of degenerate hyperbolic equations on the cylindrical domain $\Omega = \mathbb{T} \times (0,1)$ with mixed Neumann Dirichlet boundary conditions. The degeneracy acts only in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Dong-Hui Yang , Jie Zhong

We consider two degenerate heat equations with a nonlocal space term, studying, in particular, their null controllability property. To this aim, we first consider the associated nonhomogeneous degenerate heat equations: we study their well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 B. Allal , G. Fragnelli , J. Salhi

We consider a degenerate/singular wave equation in one dimension, with drift and in presence of a leading operator which is not in divergence form. We impose a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition where the degeneracy occurs and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Genni Fragnelli , Dimitri Mugnai , Amine Sbai

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

In this paper, we deal with the boundary controllability and boundary stabilizability of the 1D wave equation in non-cylindrical domain of the form ($\alpha (t)<x<\beta (t)$). By using the characteristics method, we prove under a natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Mokhtari Yacine

We consider the one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation $$ u_t - (x^\alpha u_x)_x =0 \qquad x\in(0,1),\ t \in (0,T) ,$$ controlled by a boundary force acting at the degeneracy point $x=0$. First we study the reachable targets at some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Piermarco Cannarsa , Patrick Martinez , Judith Vancostenoble

This paper explores the controllability of a class of N-dimensional hyperbolic equations featuring a single interior degenerate point. Firstly, we establish the well-posedness of the equation through the application of the Hardy inequality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Donghui Yang , Weijia Wu

This paper examines the impulse controllability of degenerate singular parabolic equations through a modern framework focused on finite-time stabilization. Furthermore, we provide an explicit estimate for the exponential decay of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Walid Zouhair , Ghita El Guermai , Ilham Ouelddris

We consider linear one-dimensional parabolic equations with space dependent coefficients that are only measurable and that may be degenerate or singular.Considering generalized Robin-Neumann boundary conditions at both extremities, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

In this paper, we are concerned with local controllability properties of degenerate parabolic equations in bounded domains that evolve in time. More precisely, we deal with the exact controllability to a positive trajectory of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alfredo S. Gamboa , André da Rocha Lopes , Luis P. Yapu

We consider both the internal and boundary controllability problems for wave equations under non-negativity constraints on the controls. First, we prove the steady state controllability property with nonnegative controls for a general class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

This paper studies unique continuation for weakly degenerate parabolic equations in one space dimension. A new Carleman estimate of local type is obtained to deduce that all solutions that vanish on the degeneracy set, together with their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Jacques Tort , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this article we study a controllability problem for a parabolic and a hyperbolic partial differential equations in which the control is the shape of the domain where the equation holds. The quantity to be controlled is the trace of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Jonathan Touboul

In this work, we investigate the approximate controllability of a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with Robin boundary conditions. The degeneracy occurs at one endpoint of the spatial domain, and we apply an impulsive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Hind El Baggari , Ilham Ouelddris

In this paper we study the controllability and the stability for a degenerate beam equation in divergence form via the energy method. The equation is clamped at the left end and controlled by applying a shearing force or a damping at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Alessandro Camasta , Genni Fragnelli

We investigate the internal controllability of the wave equation with structural damping on the one dimensional torus. We assume that the control is acting on a moving point or on a moving small interval with a constant velocity. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation with a nonlinear dynamic boundary condition and a Neumann-type boundary control acting on the other extremity. We consider a class of nonlinear stabilizing feedbacks that only depend on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

In this study, we firstly establish the well-posedness of a degenerate parabolic equation under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Following this, we introduce a shape design problem, which acts as a framework for approximating the degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dong-Hui Yang , Bao-Zhu Guo