186 research outputs found
Generation of two-dimensional water waves by moving bottom disturbances
We investigate the potential and limitations of the wave generation by
disturbances moving at the bottom. More precisely, we assume that the wavemaker
is composed of an underwater object of a given shape which can be displaced
according to a prescribed trajectory. We address the practical question of
computing the wavemaker shape and trajectory generating a wave with prescribed
characteristics. For the sake of simplicity we model the hydrodynamics by a
generalized forced Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation. This practical problem
is reformulated as a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. Additional
constraints are imposed in order to fulfill various practical design
requirements. Finally, we present some numerical results in order to
demonstrate the feasibility and performance of the proposed methodology.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, 69 references. Other author's papers
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Unique continuation property and control for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation on the torus
We consider the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation on the one dimensional
torus T = R/(2{\pi}Z). We prove a Unique Continuation Property (UCP) for small
data in H^1(T) with nonnegative zero means. Next we extend the UCP to certain
BBM-like equations, including the equal width wave equation and the KdV-BBM
equation. Applications to the stabilization of the above equations are given.
In particular, we show that when an internal control acting on a moving
interval is applied in BBM equation, then a semiglobal exponential
stabilization can be derived in H^s(T) for any s \geq 1. Furthermore, we prove
that the BBM equation with a moving control is also locally exactly
controllable in H^s(T) for any s \geq 0 and globally exactly controllable in H
s (T) for any s \geq 1
On the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation with a localized damping
We introduce several mechanisms to dissipate the energy in the
Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation. We consider either a distributed
(localized) feedback law, or a boundary feedback law. In each case, we prove
the global wellposedness of the system and the convergence towards a solution
of the BBM equation which is null on a band. If the Unique Continuation
Property holds for the BBM equation, this implies that the origin is
asymp-totically stable for the damped BBM equation
Weak damping for the Korteweg-de Vries equation
For more than 20 years, the Korteweg-de Vries equation has been intensively
explored from the mathematical point of view. Regarding control theory, when
adding an internal force term in this equation, it is well known that the
Korteweg-de Vries equation is exponentially stable in a bounded domain. In this
work, we propose a weak forcing mechanism, with a lower cost than that already
existing in the literature, to achieve the result of the global exponential
stability to the Korteweg-de Vries equation.Comment: 19 pages. comments are welcom
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