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In this paper, we deal with the existence of insensitizing controls for the Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that there exist controls insensitizing the $L^2$ -norm of the observation…
In this paper, we consider the Stokes equations in a two-dimen- sional channel with periodic conditions in the direction of the channel. We establish null controllability of this system using a boundary control which acts on the normal…
This paper is concerned with Dirichlet problem $u(0,t)=0$, $\theta(0,t)=\theta_-$ for one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half space $\R_+=(0,+\infty)$. Because the boundary decay rate is hard to control,…
We analyze controllability properties for the one-dimensional heat equation with singular inverse-square potential $$ u_t-u_{xx}-\frac{\mu}{x^2}u=0,\;\;\; (x,t)\in(0,1)\times(0,T).$$ For any $\mu<1/4$, we prove that the equation is null…
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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…
We consider a controlled state equation of parabolic type on the halfline $(0,+\infty)$ with boundary conditions of Dirichlet type in which the unknown is equal to the sum of the control and of a white noise in time. We study finite horizon…
In this paper, we consider the following degenerate/singular parabolic equation $$ u_t -(x^\alpha u_{x})_x - \frac{\mu}{x^{2-\alpha}} u =0, \qquad x\in (0,1), \ t \in (0,T), $$ where $0\leq \alpha <1$ and $\mu\leq (1-\alpha)^2/4$ are two…
We study the boundary controllability problem for a multilayer Rao-Nakra sandwich beam. This beam model consists of a Rayleigh beam coupled with a number of wave equations. We consider all combinations of clamped and hinged boundary…
We establish a local null controllability result for following the nonlinear parabolic equation: $$u_t-\left(b\left(x,\int_0^1u \ \right)u_x \right)_x+f(t,x,u)=h\chi_\omega,\ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times (0,1) $$ where $b(x,r)=\ell(r)a(x)$ is a…
This paper deals with the problem of internal null-controllability of a heat equation posed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions and perturbed by a semilinear nonlocal term. We prove the small-time local…
We are interested in the exact null controllability of the equation $\partial_t f - \partial_x^2 f - x^2 \partial_y^2f = \mathbf 1_\omega u$, with control $u$ supported on $\omega$. We show that, when $\omega$ does not intersect a…
In this article, we study boundary null controllability properties of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the interval $(0,2\pi)$ for both barotropic and non-barotropic fluids using only one boundary control. We consider…
The aim of the paper is to study the problem $$u_{tt}+du_t-c^2\Delta u=0 \qquad \text{in $\mathbb{R}\times\Omega$,}$$ $$\mu v_{tt}- \text{div}_\Gamma (\sigma \nabla_\Gamma v)+\delta v_t+\kappa v+\rho u_t =0\qquad \text{on $\mathbb{R}\times…
We prove that a free boundary semilinear heat equation with Stefan boundary condition and radially symmetric data is locally null controllable. The strategy involves reducing the problem to the corresponding one-dimensional formulation and…
In this article, we study the existence of insensitizing controls for a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with dynamic boundary conditions. Here, we have a partially unknown data of the system, and the problem consists in finding…
We characterize the well-posedness of a class of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with boundary control and observation. This class includes in particular the Euler-Bernoulli beam equations and more generally 1D linear…
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