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Control of the Wave Equation by Time-Dependent Coefficient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

Antonin Chambolle  and
Fadil Santosa
Antonin Chambolle
Affiliation:
CEREMADE, UMR 7534 du CNRS, Université de Paris-Dauphine, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France; antonin.chambolle@ceremade.dauphine.fr.
Fadil Santosa
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.; santosa@math.umn.edu.
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Abstract

We study an initial boundary-value problem for a waveequation with time-dependent sound speed. In the control problem,we wish to determine a sound-speed function which damps thevibration of the system. We consider the case where the sound speed cantake on only two values, and propose a simple control law. We showthat if the number of modes in the vibration is finite, and none ofthe eigenfrequencies are repeated, the proposedcontrol law does lead to energy decay. We illustrate the rich behaviorof this problem in numerical examples.

Keywords

Control problemtime dependent wave equationdamping.

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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 8: A tribute to JL Lions , 2002 , pp. 375 - 392
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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