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Title: Luenberger compensator theory for heat-Kelvin-Voigt-damped-structure interaction models with interface/boundary feedback controls
Abstract An optimal, complete, continuous theory of the Luenberger dynamic compensator (or state estimator or state observer) is obtained for the recently studied class of heat-structure interaction partial differential equation (PDE) models, with structure subject to high Kelvin-Voigt damping, and feedback control exercised either at the interface between the two media or else at the external boundary of the physical domain in three different settings. It is a first, full investigation that opens the door to numerous and far reaching subsequent work. They will include physically relevantfluid-structure models, with wave- or plate-structures, possibly without Kelvin-Voigt damping, as explicitly noted in the text, all the way to achieving the ultimate discrete numerical theory, so critical in applications. While the general setting is functional analytic, delicate PDE-energy estimates dictate how to define the interface/boundary feedback control in each of the three cases.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2205508
PAR ID:
10509626
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
De Gruyter
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Open Mathematics
Volume:
21
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2391-5455
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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