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Bounded smooth solutions of the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for a wide variety of quasilinear parabolic equations, including graphical anisotropic mean curvature flows, have gradient bounded in terms of oscillation and elapsed time.
We consider the problem of boundary control for a vibrating string with $N$ interior point masses. We assume the control is at the left end, and the string is fixed at the right end. Singularities in waves are "smoothed" out to one order as…
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…
This work is devoted to prove the pointwise controllability of the Bernoulli-Euler beam equation. It is obtained as a limit of internal controllability of the same type of equation.
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…
We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting in the determination of an electric potential $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+q(x)u=0$ in an unbounded…
This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…
This paper is concerned with the null controllability problem for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations under multiplicative control, locally supported in space. For the purpose of proving the existence of a multiplicative control…
This paper is the first part of a project devoted to studying the interconnection between controllability properties of a dynamical system and the large-time asymptotics of trajectories for the associated stochastic system. It is proved…
In this paper, we deal with the global exact controllability to the trajectories of the Boussinesq system. We consider 2D and 3D smooth bounded domains. The velocity field of the fluid must satisfy a Navier slip-with-friction boundary…
In this paper, motivated by a physics problem, we investigate some numerical and computational aspects for the problem of hierarchical controllability in a one-dimensional wave equation in domains with a moving boundary. Some controls act…
We study normal modes for the linear water wave problem in infinite straight channels of bounded constant cross-section. Our goal is to compare semianalytic normal mode solutions known in the literature for special triangular…
The present paper considers the full nonlinear dynamics of a homogeneous bubble inside an unbounded isentropic compressible inviscid liquid. This model is described by a free-boundary problem of compressible Euler equations with nonlinear…
In this paper, we discuss our recent works on the null-controllability, the exact controllability, and the stabilization of linear hyperbolic systems in one dimensional space using boundary controls on one side for the optimal time. Under…
We prove global existence of solutions to quasilinear wave equations with quadratic nonlinearities exterior to nontrapping obstacles in spatial dimensions four and higher. This generalizes a result of Shibata and Tsutsumi in spatial…
We consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems in domain with irregular boundary. The principal part satisfies componentwise coercivity condition and the nonlinear terms are Carath\'eodory maps having Morrey…
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 introduced in [arXiv:1106.3204] a method to locate discontinuities of a wave speed in dimension two from acoustic boundary measuments modelled by the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator. Here we extend the method for sound hard…
We derive in a direct way the exact controllability of the 1D free Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet boundary control. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists in parametrizing the solution and the control by the…
We provide a justification with rigorous error estimates showing that the leading term in weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions of highly oscillatory reflecting pulses is close to the uniquely determined exact solution for small…