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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…
In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…
This article deals with the $H^{1}$--level local null controllability for the energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Firstly, we demonstrate that the problem under consideration is well-posed using Strichartz…
A control problem with terminal overdetermination is considered for the higher order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a bounded interval. The boundary condition on the space derivative is chosen as the control. Results on global…
Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$, and let $T>0$. We prove a well-posedness results for the structurally damped beam equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u-\rho \Delta u_t=0, x\in (0,\pi),t>0$$ with various boundary…
A finite element analysis of a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the linear parabolic equation is presented in this article. The Dirichlet control is considered in a closed and convex subset of the energy space $H^1(\Omega…
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…
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…
We consider a degenerate wave equation with drift in presence of a leading operator which is not in divergence form. We provide some conditions for the boundary controllability of the associated Cauchy problem.
In [15] we proposed a set of sufficient conditions for the approximate controllability of a discrete-spectrum bilinear Schr\"odinger equation. These conditions are expressed in terms of the controlled potential and of the eigenpairs of the…
We prove null controllability for linear and semilinear heat equations with dynamic boundary conditions of surface diffusion type. The results are based on a new Carleman estimate for this type of boundary conditions.
We consider a quantum particle in a 1D interval submitted to a potential. The evolution of this particle is controlled using an external electric field. Taking into account the so-called polarizability term in the model (quadratic with…
In this paper, we investigate the null controllability of nonlinear wave systems. Initially, we employ a combination of the Galerkin method and a fixed point theorem to establish the null controllability for semi-linear wave equations with…
In this paper we study exact boundary controllability for a linear wave equation with strong and weak interior degeneration of the coefficient in the principle part of the elliptic operator. The objective is to provide a well-posedness…
We study the controllability of a Partial Differential Equation of transport type, that arises in crowd models. We are interested in controlling it with a control being a vector field, representing a perturbation of the velocity, localized…
In this paper, we present some controllability results for the heat equation in the framework of hierarchic control. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of controllability with robustness: the main control (the leader)…
In this paper we introduce some new concepts for second-order hyperbolic equations: two-point boundary value problem, global exact controllability and exact controllability. For several kinds of important linear and nonlinear wave equations…
In this paper, we intend to present some already known results about the internal controllability of the linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. After presenting the basic properties of the equation, we give a self contained proof of…
We prove the null controllability of a one dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential. We study the case the potential arises at the left end point and the weighted Dirichlet boundary control is located at…