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We analyse stability of observability estimates for solutions to wave and Scr\" odinger equations subjected to additive perturbations. The paper generalises the recent averaged observability/control result by allowing for systems consisting…
On a Riemannian manifold with or without boundary, and whether bounded or unbounded, we consider a semilinear wave (or Klein-Gordon) equation with a subcritical nonlinearity (either defocusing or focusing). We establish local…
Exact controllability is proven on a graph with cycle. The controls can be a mix of controls applied at the boundary and interior vertices. The method of proof first uses a dynamical argument to prove shape controllability and velocity…
We propose a numerical method to approximate the exact averaged boundary control of a family of wave equations depending on an unknown parameter sigma. More precisely the control, independent of sigma, that drives an initial data to a…
The coherent control of wave absorption has important applications in areas such as energy harvesting, imaging, and sensing. However, most practical scenarios involve the absorption of partially coherent rather than fully coherent waves.…
We discuss admissibility and exact observability estimates of boundary observation and interior point observation of a one-dimensional wave equation on a time dependent domain for sufficiently regular boundary functions. We also discuss…
The celebrated geometric control condition of Bardos, Lebeau, and Rauch is necessary and sufficient for wave observability [1,7] and exact controllability. It requires that any point in phase-space be transported by the generalized geodesic…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in $\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$ with data given on some part of the boundary $\partial\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$. We provide a reconstruction algorithm for this problem based on analytic…
This paper investigates the optimal control of a bilinear damped wave equation over an infinite time horizon. We establish the well-posedness of the controlled system and derive uniform energy estimates. The existence of optimal controls is…
By means of a direct and constructive method based on the theory of semiglobal $C^2$ solution, the local exact boundary observability is shown for nonautonomous 1-D quasilinear wave equations. The essential difference between nonautonomous…
The paper deals with the controllability of a degenerate beam equation. In particular, we assume that the left end of the beam is fixed, while a suitable control $f$ acts on the right end of it. As a first step we prove the existence of a…
The problem of estimating the initial state of 1-D wave equations with globally Lipschitz nonlinearities from boundary measurements on a finite interval was solved recently by using the sequence of forward and backward observers, and…
In this article, we present a novel Carleman estimate for ultrahyperbolic operators, in $ \mathbb{R}^m_t \times \mathbb{R}^n_x $. Then, we use a special case of this estimate to obtain improved observability results for wave equations with…
We consider the null controllability problem for the wave equation, and analyse a stabilized finite element method formulated on a global, unstructured spacetime mesh. We prove error estimates for the approximate control given by the…
We study time-dependent acoustic and electromagnetic waves governed by the scalar wave equation or Maxwell's equations in a bounded three-dimensional domain. We establish the existence of time-dependent boundary excitations that can be…
In this paper, we deal with the boundary controllability and boundary stabilizability of the 1D wave equation in non-cylindrical domain of the form ($\alpha (t)<x<\beta (t)$). By using the characteristics method, we prove under a natural…
In this paper, we study time optimal control problems for heat equations on $\Omega\times \mathbb{R}^+$. Two properties under consideration are the existence and the bang-bang properties of time optimal controls. It is proved that those two…
In this article we prove semiglobal stabilization and exact controllability results for nonlinear plate equations with hinged boundary conditions and analytic nonlinearity. These results hold when the damping or control is localized in a…
For semi-linear wave equations with null form non-linearities on $\mathbb{R}^{3+1}$, we exhibit an open set of initial data which are allowed to be large in energy spaces, yet we can still obtain global solutions in the future. We also…
We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting of the determination of a time-dependent coefficient of order zero $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta…