本文旨在研究一类拟线性抛物方程的零能控性。第一步，我们证明具有非常数扩散系数的相关线性抛物方程可通过正则控制实现近似零能控，并且这些控制连续依赖于扩散系数。文中采用不动点策略来证明所考虑的拟线性抛物方程的近似零能控性。我们还表明，对于一类包含抛物 $p$-Laplacian（其中 $\ rac{3}{2} < p < 2$）的抛物方程，在任意小时间内都具有精确零能控性。理论结果通过结合不动点算法得到数值说明，同时将线性抛物方程的能控性问题重新表述为混合形式，并使用有限元方法进行数值求解。
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The aim of this paper is to study the null controllability of a class of quasilinear parabolic equations. In a first step we prove that the associated linear parabolic equations with non-constant diffusion coefficients are approximately null controllable by the means of regular controls and that these controls depend continuously to the diffusion coefficient. A fixed-point strategy is employed in order to prove the null approximate controllability for the considered quasilinear parabolic equations. We also show the exact null controllability in arbitrary small time for a class of parabolic equations including the parabolic $p$-Laplacian with $\frac{3}{2} < p < 2$. The theoretical results are numerically illustrated combining a fixed point algorithm and a reformulation of the controllability problem for linear parabolic equation as a mixed-formulation which is numerically solved using a finite elements method.
The general theory on exact boundary controllability for general first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems requires that the characteristic speeds of system do not vanish. This paper deals with exact boundary controllability, when this is not the case. Some important models are also shown as applications of the main result. The strategy uses the return method, which allows in certain situations to recover non zero characteristic speeds.
In this paper we establish the theory on semiglobal classical solution to first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with a kind of nonlocal boundary conditions, and based on this, the corresponding exact boundary controllability and observability are obtained by a constructive method. Moreover, with the linearized Saint-Venant system and the 1-D linear wave equation as examples, we show that the number of both boundary controls and boundary observations can not be reduced, and consequently, we conclude that the exact boundary controllability for a hyperbolic system in a network with loop can …
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