We consider a linear parabolic transmission problem across an interface of codimension one in a bounded domain or on a Riemannian manifold, where the transmission conditions involve an additional parabolic operator on the interface. This system is an idealization of a three-layer model in which the central layer has a small thickness $\delta$. We prove a Carleman estimate in the neighborhood of the interface for an associated elliptic operator by means of partial estimates in several microlocal regions....

We consider a linear parabolic transmission problem across an interface of codimension one in a bounded domain or on a Riemannian manifold, where the transmission conditions involve an additional parabolic operator on the interface. This system is an idealization of a three-layer model in which the central layer has a small thickness $\delta$. We prove a Carleman estimate in the neighborhood of the interface for an associated elliptic operator by means of partial estimates in several microlocal regions....

We consider a quantum particle in a 1D infinite square potential well with variable length. It is a nonlinear control system in which the state is the wave function $\phi$ of the particle and the control is the length $l\left(t\right)$ of the potential well. We prove the following controllability result : given ${\phi }_0$ close enough to an eigenstate corresponding to the length $l=1$ and ${\phi }_f$ close enough to another eigenstate corresponding to the length $l=1$, there exists a continuous function $l:[0,T]\to {ℝ}_{+}^{*}$ with $T\>0$, such that $l\left(0\right)=1$ and $l\left(T\right)=1$, and which...

This article aims at studying the controllability of a simplified fluid structure interaction model derived and developed in [C. Conca, J. Planchard and M. Vanninathan, RAM: Res. Appl. Math. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester (1995); J.-P. Raymond and M. Vanninathan, ESAIM: COCV 11 (2005) 180–203; M. Tucsnak and M. Vanninathan, Systems Control Lett. 58 (2009) 547–552]. This interaction is modeled by a wave equation surrounding a harmonic oscillator. Our main result states that, in the radially...

Consider a Timoshenko beam that is clamped to an axis perpendicular to the axis of the beam. We study the problem to move the beam from a given initial state to a position of rest, where the movement is controlled by the angular acceleration of the axis to which the beam is clamped. We show that this problem of controllability is solvable if the time of rotation is long enough and a certain parameter that describes the material of the beam is a rational number that has an even numerator and an odd...

Consider a Timoshenko beam that is clamped to an axis perpendicular to the axis of the beam. We study the problem to move the beam from a given initial state to a position of rest, where the movement is controlled by the angular acceleration of the axis to which the beam is clamped. We show that this problem of controllability is solvable if the time of rotation is long enough and a certain parameter that describes the material of the beam is a rational number that has an even numerator and an...

We consider the controllability and observation problem for a simple model describing the interaction between a fluid and a beam. For this model, microlocal propagation of singularities proves that the space of controlled functions is smaller that the energy space. We use spectral properties and an explicit construction of biorthogonal sequences to show that analytic functions can be controlled within finite time. We also give an estimate for this time, related to the amount of analyticity of the...

In this paper, we consider the question of controllability of a class of linear and semilinear evolution equations on Hilbert space with measures as controls. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for weak and exact (strong) controllability of a linear system. Using this result we prove that exact controllability of the linear system implies exact controllability of a perturbed semilinear system. Controllability problem for the semilinear system is formulated as a fixed point problem on...

Sufficient conditions for controllability of partial functional differential systems of Sobolev type in Banach spaces are established. The results are obtained using compact semigroups and the Schauder fixed point theorem. An example is provided to illustrate the results.

In this paper, we use the extrapolation method combined with a recent nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type for multivalued admissible contractions in Fréchet spaces to study the existence of a mild solution for a class of first order semilinear impulsive functional differential inclusions with finite delay, and with operator of nondense domain in original space.

Let $G$ be a compact and connected semisimple Lie group and $\Sigma$ an invariant control systems on $G$. Our aim in this work is to give a new proof of Theorem 1 proved by Jurdjevic and Sussmann in [6]. Precisely, to find a positive time $s_{\Sigma }$ such that the system turns out controllable at uniform time $s_{\Sigma }$. Our proof is different, elementary and the main argument comes directly from the definition of semisimple Lie group. The uniform time is not arbitrary. Finally, if $A={\bigcap }_{t>0}A(t,e)$ denotes the reachable set from arbitrary...

In this paper, we establish the controllability conditions for a finite-dimensional dynamical control system modelled by a linear impulsive matrix Lyapunov ordinary differential equations having multiple constant time-delays in control for certain classes of admissible control functions. We characterize the controllability property of the system in terms of matrix rank conditions and are easy to verify. The obtained results are applicable for both autonomous (time-invariant) and non-autonomous (time-variant)...

This article considers a class of finite-dimensional linear impulsive time-varying systems for which various sufficient and necessary algebraic criteria for complete controllability, including matrix rank conditions are established. The obtained controllability results are further synthesised for the time-invariant case, and under some special conditions on the system parameters, we obtain a Popov-Belevitch-Hautus (PBH)-type rank condition which employs eigenvalues of the system matrix for the investigation...

In this paper we study the controllability property of invariant control systems on Lie groups. In [1], the authors state: ``If there exists a real function strictly increasing on the positive trajectories, then the system cannot be controllable". To develop this idea, the authors define the concept of symplectic vector via the co-adjoint representation. We are interested in finding algebraic conditions to determine the existence of symplectic vectors in nilpotent Lie algebras. In particular, we...