Theoretical and numerical local null controllability of a Ladyzhenskaya-Smagorinsky model of turbulence

This paper deals with the control of a differential turbulence model of the Ladyzhenskaya–Smagorinsky kind. In the equations we find local and nonlocal nonlinearities: the usual transport terms and a turbulent viscosity that depends on the global in space energy dissipated by the mean flow. We prove...

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Autores: Fernández Cara, Enrique, Limaco Ferrel, Juan, Dias Bezerra de Menezes, Silvano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/47795
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/47795
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-015-0232-7
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Null controllability
Nonlinear parabolic PDEs
Nonlocal nonlinearities
Carleman inequalities
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Sumario:This paper deals with the control of a differential turbulence model of the Ladyzhenskaya–Smagorinsky kind. In the equations we find local and nonlocal nonlinearities: the usual transport terms and a turbulent viscosity that depends on the global in space energy dissipated by the mean flow. We prove that the system is locally null-controllable, with distributed controls locally supported in space. The proof relies on rather well known arguments. However, some specific difficulties are found here because of the occurrence of nonlocal nonlinear terms. We also present an iterative algorithm of the quasi-Newton kind that provides a sequence of states and controls that converge towards a solution to the control problem. Finally, we give the details of a numerical approximation and we illustrate the behavior of the algorithm with a numerical experiment.