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A class of dissipative dynamical systems evolving on smooth constraint hypersurfaces endowed with degenerate induced bilinear forms is studied. The intrinsic evolution is generated by constraint--preserving vector fields on manifolds whose…
We analyze numerically and analytically the non linear transport properties of a drift-diffusion equation in presence of a magnetic field and of a disorder potential. For a wide range of parameters this model exhibits a plateau where the…
Observer design is considered for a class of non-linear systems whose non-linear part is energy preserving. A strategy to construct convergent observers for this class of non-linear system is presented. The approach has the advantage that…
Inspired by the Melan equation we propose a model for suspension bridges with two cables linked to a deck, through inextensible hangers. We write the energy of the system and we derive from variational principles two nonlinear and nonlocal…
This study investigates a semilinear wave equation characterized by nonlinear damping $g(u_t) $ and nonlinearity $f(u)$. First, the well-posedness of weak solutions across broader exponent ranges for $g$ and $f$ is established, by utilizing…
In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of a class of damped second-order gradient systems $$ \ddot{u}(t) + a\dot{u}(t) + \nabla W(u(t)) = 0, $$ under assumptions ensuring local convexity of the potential near equilibrium and…
We consider the problem of asymptotic reconstruction of the state and parameter values in systems of ordinary differential equations. A solution to this problem is proposed for a class of systems of which the unknowns are allowed to be…
This paper proposes a novel nonlinear sliding mode state feedback controller for perturbed second-order systems. In analogy to a linear proportional-derivative (PD) feedback control, the proposed nonlinear scheme uses the output of interest…
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Nonthermal attractors govern the emergent self-similar dynamics of far-from-equilibrium quantum systems, from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions to cold-atom experiments. Within the framework of adiabatic hydrodynamization, the approach…
Backward stochastic differential equations extend the martingale representation theorem to the nonlinear setting. This can be seen as path-dependent counterpart of the extension from the heat equation to fully nonlinear parabolic equations…
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