On the controllability of parabolic systems with a nonlinear term involving the state and the gradient

We present some results concerning the controllability of a quasi-linear parabolic equation (with linear principal part) in a bounded domain of RN with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We analyze the controllability problem with distributed controls (supported on a small open subset) and boundary cont...

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Autores: Doubova Krasotchenko, Anna, Fernández Cara, Enrique, González Burgos, Manuel, Zuazua Iriondo, Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/41189
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/41189
https://doi.org/10.1137/S0363012901386465
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Controllability
Parabolic equations
Nonlinear gradient terms
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Sumario:We present some results concerning the controllability of a quasi-linear parabolic equation (with linear principal part) in a bounded domain of RN with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We analyze the controllability problem with distributed controls (supported on a small open subset) and boundary controls (supported on a small part of the boundary). We prove that the system is null and approximately controllable at any time if the nonlinear term f(y, ∇y) grows slower than |y| log3/2(1+ |y|+ |∇y|)+ |∇y| log1/2(1+ |y|+ |∇y|) at infinity (generally, in this case, in the absence of control, blow-up occurs). The proofs use global Carleman estimates, parabolic regularity, and the fixed point method.