Approximate inertial manifolds for retarded semilinear parabolic equations

The asymptotic behavior of a system of retarded parabolic equations is considered. For any given η>0 we construct an approximate inertial manifold (AIM) which contains all the steady states of the system and has an attractive neighborhood of thickness η. The dependence of AIMs on the delay time is investigated.     

Feedback stabilization of distributed semilinear control systems

This paper considers feedback stabilization for the semilinear control system HereA is the infinitesimal generator of a linearC ⁰ semigroup of contractions on a Hilbert spaceH andB : H H is a nonlinear operator. A sufficient condition for feedback stabilization is given and applications to hyperbolic boundary value problems are presented.This research was sponsored in part by grant no. MCS76-07012 from the U.S. National Science Foundation.     

Nesting inertial manifolds for reaction and diffusion equations with large diffusivity

We study the asymptotic behaviour in large diffusivity of inertial manifolds governing the long time dynamics of a semilinear evolution system of reaction and diffusion equations. A priori, we review both local and global dynamics of the system in scales of Banach spaces of Hilbert type and we prove the existence of a universal compact attractor for the equations. Extensions yield the existence of a family of nesting inertial manifolds dependent on the diffusion of the system of equations. It is introduced an upper semicontinuity notion in large diffusivity for inertial manifolds. The limit inertial manifold whose dimension is strictly less than those of the infinite dimensional system of semilinear evolution equations is obtained.     

Approximate controllability for trajectories of semilinear control systems

We treat an abstract semilinear control system and study the controllability problem for its trajectories. Assuming a range condition of the control action operator and an inequality condition on the system parameters, we can show that the reachable trajectory set of the semilinear system is equivalent to that of its corresponding linear system.The author wishes to express his deep appreciation to Prof. T. I. Seidman for his many helpful suggestions and to Prof. W. Takahashi for many stimulating conversations.     

Approximate controllability and regularity for semilinear retarded control systems

We deal with the approximate controllability for semilinear systems with time delay in a Hilbert space. First, we show the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the given systems with the more general Lipschitz continuity of nonlinear operator f fromR ×V toH. Thereafter, it is shown that the equivalence between the reachable set of the semilinear system and that of its corresponding linear system. Finally, we make a practical application of the conditions to the system with only discrete delay.     

Convergent families of inertial manifolds for convergent approximations

This paper shows that a sequence of (suitably uniform) inertial manifolds for a family of approximations converges to an inertial manifold for the limiting problem, without imposing any additional assumptions. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A finite difference scheme for computing inertial manifolds

A fully discrete method is presented for computing inertial manifolds of dissipative partial differential equations. In particular, only an approximate spectral decomposition of the dominant differential operator needs to be known. The first few of the smallest eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the discretized operator are approximated using the Lanczos algorithm. Numerical experiments are performed for an equation in one space dimension by discretizing the space variable on a sufficiently fine grid. The basic ideas and techniques are exemplified for selected bifurcation diagrams of an integrated form of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant OGP0036901, NSERC and Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaften BEF 0150297, and Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich.     

Optimal control problems with state constraints for semilinear distributed-parameter systems

We consider optimal control problems for distributed-parameter systems described by semilinear equations, with constraints on the control and on the state, and an exact pointwise target condition. As an application of a general theory of nonlinear programming problems in Banach spaces, a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle is obtained.This research was partly supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-92-21819.     

Variational integrators for open-loop and closed-loop optimal control of mechanical systems

Mechanical systems have structural properties, e.g. symplecticity, symmetry, and a specific energy behavior, which get lost in standard integration methods. Therefore, symplectic integration methods are used in simulation and control of mechanical systems. This paper combines two methods of the class of structure-preserving control methods, namely a recently developed feedback control method and open loop optimal control based on variational integrator discretization. The combination is applied to the benchmark example of a cart pendulum system. (© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Feedback control for parabolic systems with in-domain actuation

State feedback design for linear parabolic systems with in-domain actuation and general Robin boundary conditions is considered. To this end the system is shown to be state equivalent to a boundary controlled system. By means of the backstepping transformation the latter system is shown to be feedback equivalent to a stable parabolic equation. Within the contribution previous results concerning such systems are supplemented by numerical simulation studies. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Exponential stabilization of distributed semilinear systems by optimal control

This paper studies exponential stabilization of distributed semilinear systems. The paper (i) gives a constrained feedback control that ensure the exponential stabilizability and (ii) shows that this control is the unique solution of an appropriate minimization problem. Examples of hyperbolic partial equations are provided.     

Optimal control of semilinear parabolic systems with state constraint

The aim of this work is to obtain the existence of optimal solution and maximum principle for optimal control problem with pointwise type state constraint governed by semilinear parabolic systems with certain polynomial-like nonlinearity. Application to optimal control problems of the phase transition system is given.     

Computation of nonautonomous invariant and inertial manifolds

We derive a numerical scheme to compute invariant manifolds for time-variant discrete dynamical systems, i.e., nonautonomous difference equations. Our universally applicable method is based on a truncated Lyapunov–Perron operator and computes invariant manifolds using a system of nonlinear algebraic equations which can be solved both locally using (nonsmooth) inexact Newton, and globally using continuation algorithms. Compared to other algorithms, our approach is quite flexible, since it captures time-dependent, nonsmooth, noninvertible or implicit equations and enables us to tackle the full hierarchy of strongly stable, stable and center-stable manifolds, as well as their unstable counterparts. Our results are illustrated using a test example and are applied to a population dynamical model and the Hénon map. Finally, we discuss a linearly implicit Euler–Bubnov–Galerkin discretization of a reaction diffusion equation in order to approximate its inertial manifold.     

Total controllability to affine manifolds of control systems

A system is totallyG-controllable if every pointx ₀ of the state spaceE ⁿ can be steered to the targetG in finite time and can be held inG forever afterward. Sufficient conditions are developed for the totalG-controllability of the linear system (a) $$\dot x(t) = A(t)x(t) + B(t)u(t)$$ and its perturbation (b) $$\dot x(t) = A(t)x(t) + B(t)u(t) + F(t,x(t),u(t)),$$ where the targetG is an affine manifold inE ⁿ. We state conditions on the perturbation functionF which guarantee that, if (a) is totallyG-controllable, then so is (b). These conditions onF are natural and are obtained by solving a system of nonlinear integral equations by the Leray-Schauder fixed-point theorem.     

Approximate inertial manifolds for the 2d model of atmosphere

In order to understand the mechanism of long term weather prediction and climate, we construct explicitly in this paper an infinite number of approximate inertial manifolds M _j,m for the 2D model of large scale atmosphere to approximate the global attractor of the model. Associated with each manifold, there exists a thin neighborhood of it, into which the orbits of the model enter with a finite time. These neighborhoods contain and localize the global attractor. The thickness of these neighborhoods decreases with increasing m for a fixed j. Moreover we also obtain the time analyticity of the solutions of the model and the behavior of the small structures.