We consider the linear wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a bounded interval, and with a control acting on a moving point. We give sufficient conditions on the trajectory of the control in order to have the exact controllability property.

The paper studies the problem of exact controllability of the Euler- Bernoulli equation in a cylinder $\mathrm{\Omega }\times [0,T]$ of ${ℝ}^{n+1}$, via boundary controls acting on its lateral surface.

The exact internal controllability of the radial solutions of a semilinear heat equation in R3 is proved. The result applies for nonlinearities that are of an order smaller than |s| logp |s| at infinity for 1 ≤ p < 2. The method of the proof combines HUM and a fixed point technique.

In this paper we study the boundary exact controllability for the equation $$\frac{\partial }{\partial t}\left(\alpha \left(t\right)\frac{\partial y}{\partial t}\right)-\sum _{j=1}^n\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\left(\beta \left(t\right)a\left(x\right)\frac{\partial y}{\partial x_j}\right)=0\text{in}\Omega \times (0,T),$$ when the control action is of Dirichlet-Neumann form and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $R^n$. The result is obtained by applying the HUM (Hilbert Uniqueness Method) due to J. L. Lions.

Using HUM, we study the problem of exact controllability with Neumann boundary conditions for second order hyperbolic equations. We prove that these systems are exactly controllable for all initial states in $L^2\left(\Omega \right)\times {\left(H^1\left(\Omega \right)\right)}^{\text{'}}$ and we derive estimates for the control time T.

Le but de l’exposé est de donner un guide de lecture pour un article de Gilles Lebeau où il est montré que le problème de Cauchy pour l’équation d’onde surcritique $({\partial }_t^2-{\Delta }_x)u+u^p=0$ est mal posé au sens de Hadamard dans l’espace d’énergie, pour $p\ge 7$ en dimension 3. La preuve repose sur des constructions d’optique géométrique et des analyses d’instabilité dans des régimes fortement non linéaires. On donnera les étapes de l’analyse en essayant de les situer dans leur contexte plus général : construction de solutions...

The present paper studies the existence and uniqueness of global solutions and decay rates to a given nonlinear hyperbolic problem.

We prove existence and asymptotic behaviour of a weak solutions of a mixed problem for $$\begin{array}{cc}& u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Au-\Delta u^{\text{'}}+{\left|v\right|}^{\rho +2}{\left|u\right|}^{\rho }u=f_1\hfill \\ & v^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Av-\Delta v^{\text{'}}+{\left|u\right|}^{\rho +2}{\left|v\right|}^{\rho }v=f_2*\hfill \end{array}$$ where $A$ is the pseudo-Laplacian operator.

We consider the damped semilinear viscoelastic wave equation $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}-\Delta u+{\int }_0^{t}h(t-\tau )div\left\{a\nabla u\left(\tau \right)\right\}\mathrm{d}\tau +g\left(u^{\text{'}}\right)=0\text{in}\Omega \times (0,\infty )$$ with nonlocal boundary dissipation. The existence of global solutions is proved by means of the Faedo-Galerkin method and the uniform decay rate of the energy is obtained by following the perturbed energy method provided that the kernel of the memory decays exponentially.