On decay and blow-up of the solution for a viscoelastic wave equation with boundary damping and source terms

In this paper we consider the decay and blow-up properties of a viscoelastic wave equation with boundary damping and source terms. We first extend the decay result (for the case of linear damping) obtained by Lu et al. (On a viscoelastic equation with nonlinear boundary damping and source terms: Global existence and decay of the solution, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications 12 (1) (2011), 295-303) to the nonlinear damping case under weaker assumption on the relaxation function g(t). Then, we give an exponential decay result without the relation between g^′(t) and g(t) for the linear damping case, provided that ‖g‖_L¹(0,∞) is small enough. Finally, we establish two blow-up results: one is for certain solutions with nonpositive initial energy as well as positive initial energy for both the linear and nonlinear damping cases, the other is for certain solutions with arbitrarily positive initial energy for the linear damping case.     

Adaptive stabilization for a Kirchhoff-type nonlinear beam under boundary output feedback control

In this paper, the boundary stabilization for a Kirchhoff-type nonlinear beam with one end fixed and control at the other end is considered. A gain adaptive controller is designed in terms of measured end velocity. The existence and uniqueness of the classical solution of the closed-loop system are justified. The exponential stability of the system is obtained.     

A generalized interpolation inequality and its application to the stabilization of damped equations

In this paper, we establish a generalized Hölder's or interpolation inequality for weighted spaces in which the weights are non-necessarily homogeneous. We apply it to the stabilization of some damped wave-like evolution equations. This allows obtaining explicit decay rates for smooth solutions for more general classes of damping operators. In particular, for 1−d models, we can give an explicit decay estimate for pointwise damping mechanisms supported on any strategic point.     

On the global null controllability of a Navier-Stokes system with Navier slip boundary conditions

In this paper, we deal with a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes system in a rectangle with Navier slip boundary conditions on the horizontal sides. We establish the global null controllability of the system by controlling the normal component and the vorticity of the velocity on the vertical sides. The linearized control system around zero is controllable but one does not know how to deduce global controllability results for the nonlinear system. Our proof uses the return method together with a local exact controllability result by Fursikov and Imanuvilov.     

Asymptotic behavior for Timoshenko beams subject to a single nonlinear feedback control

We consider systems of Timoshenko type in a one-dimensional bounded domain. The physical system is damped by a single feedback force, only in the equation for the rotation angle, no direct damping is applied on the equation for the transverse displacement of the beam. Moreover the damping is assumed to be nonlinear with no growth assumption at the origin, which allows very weak damping. We establish a general semi-explicit formula for the decay rate of the energy at infinity in the case of the same speed of propagation in the two equations of the system. We prove polynomial decay in the case of different speed of propagation for both linear and nonlinear globally Lipschitz feedbacks.      

Approximate controllability of a class of semilinear degenerate systems with boundary control

This paper concerns a class of control systems governed by semilinear degenerate equations with boundary control in one-dimensional space. The control is proposed on the ‘degenerate’ part of the boundary. The control systems are shown to be approximately controllable by Kakutani's fixed point theorem.     

Optimal decay rates for solutions of a nonlinear wave equation with localized nonlinear dissipation of unrestricted growth and critical exponent source terms under mixed boundary conditions

This article investigates optimal decay rates for solutions to a semilinear hyperbolic equation with localized interior damping and a source term. Both dissipation and the source are fully nonlinear   and the growth rate of the source map may include critical exponents (for Sobolev’s embedding H¹→L²$H^1\to L^2$). Besides continuity and monotonicity, no growth or regularity assumptions are imposed on the damping. We analyze the system in the presence of Neumann-type boundary conditions including the mixed cases: Dirichlet–Neumann–Robin.     

A unified approach via convexity for optimal energy decay rates of finite and infinite dimensional vibrating damped systems with applications to semi-discretized vibrating damped systems

The Liapunov method is celebrated for its strength to establish strong decay of solutions of damped equations. Extensions to infinite dimensional settings have been studied by several authors (see e.g. Haraux, 1991 [11], and Komornik and Zuazua, 1990 [17] and references therein). Results on optimal energy decay rates under general conditions of the feedback is far from being complete. The purpose of this paper is to show that general dissipative vibrating systems have structural properties due to dissipation. We present a general approach based on convexity arguments to establish sharp optimal or quasi-optimal upper energy decay rates for these systems, and on comparison principles based on the dissipation property, and interpolation inequalities (in the infinite dimensional case) for lower bounds of the energy. We stress the fact that this method works for finite as well as infinite dimensional vibrating systems and as well as for applications to semi-discretized nonlinear damped vibrating PDE's. A part of this approach has been introduced in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. In the present paper, we identify a new, simple and explicit criteria to select a class of nonlinear feedbacks, for which we prove a simplified explicit energy decay formula comparatively to the more general but also more complex formula we give in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. Moreover, we prove optimality of the decay rates for this class, in the finite dimensional case. This class includes a wide range of feedbacks, ranging from very weak nonlinear dissipation (exponentially decaying in a neighborhood of zero), to polynomial, or polynomial-logarithmic decaying feedbacks at the origin. In the infinite dimensional case, we establish a comparison principle on the energy of sufficiently smooth solutions through the dissipation relation. This principle relies on suitable interpolation inequalities. It allows us to give lower bounds for the energy of smooth initial data for the one-dimensional wave equation with a distributed polynomial damping, which improves Haraux (1995) [12] lower estimate of the energy for this case. We also establish lower bounds in the multi-dimensional case for sufficiently smooth solutions when such solutions exist. We further mention applications of these various results to several classes of PDE's, namely: the locally and boundary damped multi-dimensional wave equation, the locally damped plate equation and the globally damped coupled Timoshenko beams system but it applies to several other examples. Furthermore, we show that these optimal energy decay results apply to finite dimensional systems obtained from spatial discretization of infinite dimensional damped systems. We illustrate these results on the one-dimensional locally damped wave and plate equations discretized by finite differences and give the optimal energy decay rates for these two examples. These optimal rates are not uniform with respect to the discretization parameter. We also discuss and explain why optimality results have to be stated differently for feedbacks close to linear behavior at the origin.     

Attractors for non-dissipative irrotational von Karman plates with boundary damping

Long-time behavior of solutions to a von Karman plate equation is considered. The system has an unrestricted first-order perturbation and a nonlinear damping acting through free boundary conditions only.This model differs from those previously considered (e.g. in the extensive treatise (Chueshov and Lasiecka, 2010 [11])) because the semi-flow may be of a non-gradient type: the unique continuation property is not known to hold, and there is no strict Lyapunov function on the natural finite-energy space. Consequently, global bounds on the energy, let alone the existence of an absorbing ball, cannot be a priori inferred. Moreover, the free boundary conditions are not recognized by weak solutions and some helpful estimates available for clamped, hinged or simply-supported plates cannot be invoked.It is shown that this non-monotone flow can converge to a global compact attractor with the help of viscous boundary damping and appropriately structured restoring forces acting only on the boundary or its collar.     

New trends towards lower energy estimates and optimality for nonlinearly damped vibrating systems

We present an approach based on comparison principles for energy and interpolation properties to derive lower energy estimates for nonlinearly either locally damped or boundary damped vibrating systems. We show how the dissipation relation provides strong information on the asymptotic behavior of the energy of solutions. The geometrical situations are either one-dimensional, or radial two-dimensional or three-dimensional for annulus domains. We also consider the case of general domains, but in this case, for solutions with bounded velocities in time and space. In all these cases, the nonlinear damping function is assumed to have arbitrary (strictly sublinear) growth at the origin. We give results for strong solutions and stronger lower estimates for smoother solutions. The results are presented in two forms, either on the side of energy comparison principles, or through time-pointwise lower estimates. Under additional geometric assumptions, we give the resulting lower and upper estimates for four representative examples of damping functions. We further give a “weak” lower estimate (in the sense of a certain lim supt→∞) and an upper estimate of the velocity for smoother solutions in case of general damping functions and for radial, as well as multi-dimensional domains. We also discuss these estimates in the framework of optimality, which is not proved here, and indicate open problems raised by these results.     

Global boundary controllability of the Saint-Venant system for sloped canals with friction

We consider a sloped canal with friction that is governed by the Saint-Venant system with source term. We show that starting sufficiently close to a stationary constant subcritical initial state, we can control the system in finite time to a state in a C¹$C^1$ neighbourhood of any other stationary constant subcritical state by boundary control at the ends of the canal in such a way that during the process the system state remains continuously differentiable.     

Homogenization of a boundary condition for the heat equation

An asymptotic analysis is given for the heat equation with mixed boundary conditions rapidly oscillating between Dirichlet and Neumann type. We try to present a general framework where deterministic homogenization methods can be applied to calculate the second term in the asymptotic expansion with respect to the small parameter characterizing the oscillations. Received August 20, 1999 / final version received March 1, 2000?Published online June 21, 2000     

On exponential stability of a semilinear wave equation with variable coefficients under the nonlinear boundary feedback

The uniform stabilization of an originally regarded nondissipative system described by a semilinear wave equation with variable coefficients under the nonlinear boundary feedback is considered. The existence of both weak and strong solutions to the system is proven by the Galerkin method. The exponential stability of the system is obtained by introducing an equivalent energy function and using the energy multiplier method on the Riemannian manifold. This equivalent energy function shows particularly that the system is essentially a dissipative system. This result not only generalizes the result from constant coefficients to variable coefficients for these kinds of semilinear wave equations but also simplifies significantly the proof for constant coefficients case considered in [A. Guesmia, A new approach of stabilization of nondissipative distributed systems, SIAM J. Control Optim. 42 (2003) 24-52] where the system is claimed to be nondissipative.     

Controllability and asymptotic stabilization of the Camassa-Holm equation

We investigate the problems of exact controllability and asymptotic stabilization of the Camassa-Holm equation on the circle, by means of a distributed control. The results are global, and in particular the control prevents the solution from blowing up.     

The Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov theorem for stabilizable hyperbolic boundary control systems

In this paper we present a version of the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov theorem for a class of boundary control systems of hyperbolic type. Unstable, controllable systems are considered and stabilizability withunbounded feedbacks is permitted.Paper partially supported by the Italian MINISTERO DELLA RICERCA SCIENTIFICA E TECNOLOGICA within the program of GNAFA-CNR and by NATO CRG program SA.5-2-05 (CRG940161).     

Boundary stabilization of solutions of a nonlinear system of Timoshenko type

In this paper we are concerned with a multidimensional Timoshenko system subjected to boundary conditions of memory type. We establish general rate decay results. The usual exponential and polynomial decay rates are only special cases.     

Feedback stabilization of a simplified 1d fluid–particle system

We consider the feedback stabilization of a simplified 1d model for a fluid–structure interaction system. The fluid equation is the viscous Burgers equation whereas the motion of the particle is given by the Newton's laws. We stabilize this system around a stationary state by using feedbacks located at the exterior boundary of the fluid domain. With one input, we obtain a local stabilizability of the system with an exponential decay rate of order σ<_σ0$\sigma <{\sigma }_0$. An arbitrary order for the exponential decay rate can be proved if a unique continuation result holds true or if two inputs are used to stabilize the system. Our method is based on general arguments for stabilization of nonlinear parabolic systems combined with a change of variables to handle the fact that the fluid domains of the stationary state and of the stabilized solution are different.     

Smoothness of generalized solutions for higher-order elliptic equations with nonlocal boundary conditions

The smoothness of generalized solutions for higher-order elliptic equations with nonlocal boundary conditions is studied in plane domains. Necessary and sufficient conditions upon the right-hand side of the problem and nonlocal operators under which the generalized solutions possess an appropriate smoothness are established.     

The heat equation with nonlinear generalized Robin boundary conditions

Let Ω⊂RN be a bounded domain and let μ be an admissible measure on ∂Ω. We show in the first part that if Ω has the H¹-extension property, then a realization of the Laplace operator with generalized nonlinear Robin boundary conditions, formally given by on ∂Ω, generates a strongly continuous nonlinear submarkovian semigroup SB=(SB(t))_t?0 on L²(Ω). We also obtain that this semigroup is ultracontractive in the sense that for every u,v∈Lp(Ω), p?2 and every t>0, one has