Exact Controllability of the Superlinear Heat Equation

The exact internal and boundary controllability of parabolic equations with superlinear nonlinearity is studied. Accepted 3 January 2000     

Existence of Insensitizing Controls for a Semilinear Heat Equation with a Superlinear Nonlinearity

Abstract

In this paper we consider a semilinear heat equation (in a bounded domain Ω of ? ^N ) with a nonlinearity that has a superlinear growth at infinity. We prove the existence of a control, with support in an open set ω ? Ω, that insensitizes the L ² ? norm of the observation of the solution in another open subset 𝒪 ? Ω when ω ∩ 𝒪 ≠ ?, under suitable assumptions on the nonlinear term f(y) and the right hand side term ξ of the equation. The proof, involving global Carleman estimates and regularizing properties of the heat equation, relies on the sharp study of a similar linearized problem and an appropriate fixed-point argument. For certain superlinear nonlinearities, we also prove an insensitivity result of a negative nature. The crucial point in this paper is the technique of construction of L ^r -controls (r large enough) starting from insensitizing controls in L ².     

半线性热方程精确内部能控性

主要采用了构造辅助系统u′ △u=0的方法，同时也利用了强单调算子 的满射性。在条件（H)的修改下，得到在有限时间内的精确可控性，研究半线性热方程系统ey/et=△y-f(x,t,y,倒△y) h(x,t)的精确内部能控性。     

Null Controllability for the Dissipative Semilinear Heat Equation

We consider the exact null controllability problem for the semi- linear heat equation with dissipative nonlinearity in a bounded domain of Rⁿ . The main result of the article asserts that if the nonlinearity is even mildly superlinear, then global null controllability in an arbitrarily short time fails; instead we provide sharp estimates for the controllability time in terms of the size of the initial data.     

Exact Controllability of a Semilinear Thermoelastic System with Control Solely in Thermal Equation

A result concerning the exact controllability of a semilinear thermoelastic system, in which the control term occurs solely in the thermal equation, is derived under the influence of rotational inertia and Lipschitz nonlinearity, subject to the clamped/Dirichlet boundary conditions. In the proof, we make use of the result given by Avalos (Differential and Integral Equations, 2000; 13(4–6):613–630), which states that the corresponding linear system is exact controllable.     

半线性热方程的反馈零能控性

考虑具有Lipschitz非线性项,半线性热方程的最优控制问题.我们将运用观测不等式,证明值函数ψ作为相应Hamilton-Jacobi方程的唯一粘性正解是局部Lipschitz连续的.最后,运用动态规划方法,得到系统最优的反馈控制.     

Exact Controllability for Semilinear Wave Equations

In this note, we prove the exact controllability for the semilinear wave equations in any space dimensions under the condition that the nonlinearity behaves like as s → ∞.     

Approximate Controllability for the Semilinear Heat Equation Involving Gradient Terms

This paper deals with the approximate controllability of the semilinear heat equation, when the nonlinear term depends on both the state y and its spatial gradient y and the control acts on any nonempty open subset of the domain. Our proof relies on the fact that the nonlinearity is globally Lipschitz with respect to (y, y). The approximate controllability is viewed as the limit of a sequence of optimal control problems. Another key ingredient is a unique continuation property proved by Fabre (Ref. 1) in the context of linear heat equations. Finally, we prove that approximate controllability can be obtained simultaneously with exact controllability over finite-dimensional subspaces.     

Null Controllability in Unbounded Domains for the Semilinear Heat Equation with Nonlinearities Involving Gradient Terms

We consider the null controllability problem for the semilinear heat equation with nonlinearities involving gradient terms in an unbounded domain of ^N with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The control is assumed to be distributed along a subdomain such that the uncontrolled region \ is bounded. Using Carleman inequalities, we prove first the null controllability of the linearized equation. Then, by a fixed-point method, we obtain the main result for the semilinear case. This result asserts that, when the nonlinearity is ^C1 and globally Lipschitz, the system is null controllable.     

Exact Controllability of a Damped Wave Equation with Distributed Controls

We study the controllability problem of the one-dimensional damped wave equation $$\rho {\text{(}}x{\text{)}}u_{tt} - \frac{d}{{dx}}{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} \left( {p(x)u_x } \right){\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} + {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} 2d(x)\rho (x)u_t + q(x)\rho (x)u = h(x,t),{\text{ }}x \in {\text{(0,1)}}$$ This equation describes the forced motion of a nonhomogeneous string subject to a viscous damping. It is proved that the solution can be exactly controlled in finite time by means of distributed control forces h which vanish outside of any fixed nonempty subinterval of (0, 1). Moreover the optimal time of controllability is given.     

Global Approximately Controllability and Nite Dimensional Exact Controllability for Parabolic Equation

We study the globally approximate controllability and finite-dimensional exact controllability of parabolic equation where the control acts on a mobile subset of Ω,or, a curve in Q =Ω × (0, T).     

Hausdorff Dimension of Ruptures for Solutions of a Semilinear Elliptic Equation with Singular Nonlinearity

We consider the following semilinear elliptic equation with singular nonlinearity:

Exact Controllability of Semilinear Evolution Systems and Its Application

In this paper, we obtain several abstract results concerning the exact controllability of semilinear evolution systems. First, we prove the null local exact controllability of semilinear first-order systems by means of the contraction mapping principle; in this case, we do not assume any compactness. Next, we derive the global and/or local exact controllability of semilinear second-order systems by means of the Schauder fixed-point theorem; in this case, we assume only the embedding of the related spaces having some compactness, which is reasonable for many concrete problems. Our main result shows that the observability of the dual of the linearized system implies the exact controllability of the original semilinear system. Finally, we apply our abstract results to the exact controllability of the semilinear wave equation.     

Nonexistence of Global Solutions for a Semilinear Double-Wave Equation with Nonlinearity of Derivative Type

In this paper,we study the blow-up of solutions to a semilinear double-wave equation with nonlinearity of derivative type.By using the iteration method and the ...     

Quenching Time for a Semilinear Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Neumann Boundary Condition

In this paper we consider the finite time quenching behavior of solutions to a semilinear heat equation with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition. Firstly, we establish conditions on nonlinear source and boundary to guarantee that the solution doesn＇t quench for all time. Secondly, we give sufficient conditions on data such that the solution quenches in finite time, and derive an upper bound of quenching time. Thirdly, undermore restrictive conditions, we obtain a lower bound of quenching time. Finally, we give the exact bounds of quenching time of a special example.     

关于半线性热方程的死角性质

本文考虑下述问题：这里，．本文证明了在发生死角时只有有限个死角点．     

Numerical Exact Controllability of the 1D Heat Equation: Duality and Carleman Weights

This article is devoted to the numerical computation of distributed null controls for the 1D heat equation. The goal is to compute a control that drives (a numerical approximation of) the solution from a prescribed initial state exactly to zero. We extend the earlier contribution of Carthel, Glowinski, and Lions, which is devoted to the computation of controls of minimal square-integrable norm. We start from some constrained extremal problems (involving unbounded weights in time), introduced by Fursikov and Imanuvilov, and we apply appropriate duality techniques. Then, we provide numerical approximations of the associated dual problems, and apply conjugate gradient algorithms. Finally, several experiments are presented, and we highlight the influence of the weights and analyze this approach in terms of robustness and efficiency. Also, the results are compared with others in a previous article of the authors, where primal methods were considered.     

On a Constrained Approximate Controllability Problem for the Heat Equation

In this work, we study an approximate control problem for the heatequation, with a nonstandard but rather natural restriction on thesolution. It is well known that approximate controllability holds. On theother hand, the total mass of the solutions of the uncontrolled system isconstant in time. Therefore, it is natural to analyze whether approximatecontrollability holds supposing the total mass of the solution to be a givenconstant along the trajectory. Under this additional restriction,approximate controllability is not always true. For instance, this propertyfails when is a ball. We prove that the system is genericallycontrollable; that is, given an open regular bounded domain , thereexists an arbitrarily small smooth deformation u, such that the system isapproximately controllable in the new domain +u underthis constraint. We reduce our control problem to a nonstandard uniquenessproblem. This uniqueness property is shown to hold generically with respectto the domain.