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    Unique continuation property and control for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation on the torus

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    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

    Smooth attractors of finite dimension for von Karman evolutions with nonlinear frictional damping localized in a boundary layer

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    In this paper dynamic von Karman equations with localized interior damping supported in a boundary collar are considered. Hadamard well-posedness for von Karman plates with various types of nonlinear damping are well-known, and the long-time behavior of nonlinear plates has been a topic of recent interest. Since the von Karman plate system is of "hyperbolic type" with critical nonlinearity (noncompact with respect to the phase space), this latter topic is particularly challenging in the case of geometrically constrained and nonlinear damping. In this paper we first show the existence of a compact global attractor for finite-energy solutions, and we then prove that the attractor is both smooth and finite dimensional. Thus, the hyperbolic-like flow is stabilized asymptotically to a smooth and finite dimensional set. Key terms: dynamical systems, long-time behavior, global attractors, nonlinear plates, nonlinear damping, localized dampin

    Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations: Controllability by Low Modes Forcing for deterministic version and Support Theorems for Stochastic version

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    In this article, we study the controllability issues of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equations (LLGEs), accompanied with non-zero exchange energy only, in an interval in one spatial dimension with Neumann boundary conditions. The paper is of twofold. In the first part of the paper, we study the controllability issues of the LLGEs. The control force acting here is degenerate i.e., it acts through a few numbers of low mode frequencies. We exploit the Fourier series expansion of the solution. We borrow methods of differential geometric control theory (Lie bracket generating property) to establish the global controllability of the finite-dimensional Galerkin approximations of LLGEs. We show L2L^2 approximate controllability of the full system. In the second part, we consider the LLGEs with lower-dimensional degenerate random forcing (finite-dimensional Brownian motions) and study support theorems.Comment: 2

    Semigroup Well-posedness of A Linearized, Compressible Fluid with An Elastic Boundary

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    We address semigroup well-posedness of the fluid-structure interaction of a linearized compressible, viscous fluid and an elastic plate (in the absence of rotational inertia). Unlike existing work in the literature, we linearize the compressible Navier-Stokes equations about an arbitrary state (assuming the fluid is barotropic), and so the fluid PDE component of the interaction will generally include a nontrivial ambient flow profile U \mathbf{U}. The appearance of this term introduces new challenges at the level of the stationary problem. In addition, the boundary of the fluid domain is unavoidably Lipschitz, and so the well-posedness argument takes into account the technical issues associated with obtaining necessary boundary trace and elliptic regularity estimates. Much of the previous work on flow-plate models was done via Galerkin-type constructions after obtaining good a priori estimates on solutions (specifically \cite {Chu2013-comp}---the work most pertinent to ours here); in contrast, we adopt here a Lumer-Phillips approach, with a view of associating solutions of the fluid-structure dynamics with a C0C_{0}-semigroup {eAt}t≥0\left\{ e^{ \mathcal{A}t}\right\} _{t\geq 0} on the natural finite energy space of initial data. So, given this approach, the major challenge in our work becomes establishing of the maximality of the operator A\mathcal{A} which models the fluid-structure dynamics. In sum: our main result is semigroup well-posedness for the fully coupled fluid-structure dynamics, under the assumption that the ambient flow field U∈H3(O) \mathbf{U}\in \mathbf{H}^{3}(\mathcal{O}) has zero normal component trace on the boundary (a standard assumption with respect to the literature). In the final sections we address well-posedness of the system in the presence of the von Karman plate nonlinearity, as well as the stationary problem associated with the dynamics.Comment: 1 figur
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