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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 19, Number 4, October-December 2013
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Page(s) | 1076 - 1108 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2013046 | |
Published online | 13 August 2013 |
Numerical controllability of the wave equation through primal methods and Carleman estimates
1
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Blaise Pascal
(Clermont-Ferand 2), UMR CNRS 6620, Campus de Cézeaux, 63177
Aubière,
France
nicolae.cindea@math.univ-bpclermont.fr;
arnaud.munch@math.univ-bpclermont.fr
2
Dpto. EDAN, Universidad de Sevilla, Aptdo. 1160,
41012
Sevilla,
Spain
cara@us.es
Received:
8
February
2012
Revised:
19
December
2012
This paper deals with the numerical computation of boundary null controls for the 1D wave equation with a potential. The goal is to compute approximations of controls that drive the solution from a prescribed initial state to zero at a large enough controllability time. We do not apply in this work the usual duality arguments but explore instead a direct approach in the framework of global Carleman estimates. More precisely, we consider the control that minimizes over the class of admissible null controls a functional involving weighted integrals of the state and the control. The optimality conditions show that both the optimal control and the associated state are expressed in terms of a new variable, the solution of a fourth-order elliptic problem defined in the space-time domain. We first prove that, for some specific weights determined by the global Carleman inequalities for the wave equation, this problem is well-posed. Then, in the framework of the finite element method, we introduce a family of finite-dimensional approximate control problems and we prove a strong convergence result. Numerical experiments confirm the analysis. We complete our study with several comments.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35L10 / 65M12 / 93B40
Key words: One-dimensional wave equation / null controllability / finite element methods / Carleman estimates
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