The Wave Equation: Control and Numerics

Ervedoza S, Zuazua E (2012)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

Lecture Notes in Mathematics Springer Verlag Kg

Book Volume: 2048

Pages Range: 245-339

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27893-8_5

Abstract

In these Notes we make a self-contained presentation of the theory that has been developed recently for the numerical analysis of the controllability properties of wave propagation phenomena and, in particular, for the constant coefficient wave equation. We develop the so-called discrete approach. In other words, we analyze to which extent the semidiscrete or fully discrete dynamics arising when discretizing the wave equation by means of the most classical scheme of numerical analysis, shear the property of being controllable, uniformly with respect to the mesh-size parameters and if the corresponding controls converge to the continuous ones as the mesh-size tends to zero. We focus mainly on finite-difference approximation schemes for the one-dimensional constant coefficient wave equation. Using the well known equivalence of the control problem with the observation one, we analyze carefully the second one, which consists in determining the total energy of solutions out of partial measurements. We show how spectral analysis and the theory of non-harmonic Fourier series allows, first, to show that high frequency wave packets may behave in a pathological manner and, second, to design efficient filtering mechanisms. We also develop the multiplier approach that allows to provide energy identities relating the total energy of solutions and the energy concentrated on the boundary. These observability properties obtained after filtering, by duality, allow to build controls that, normally, do not control the full dynamics of the system but rather guarantee a relaxed controllability property. Despite of this they converge to the continuous ones. We also present a minor variant of the classical Hilbert Uniqueness Method allowing to build smooth controls for smooth data. This result plays a key role in the proof of the convergence rates of the discrete controls towards the continuous ones. These results are illustrated by means of several numerical experiments.

Authors with CRIS profile

Enrique Zuazua Iriondo

Involved external institutions

National Center for Scientific Research / Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) FR France (FR) Basque Center of Applied Mathematics (BCAM) ES Spain (ES)

How to cite

APA:

Ervedoza, S., & Zuazua, E. (2012). The Wave Equation: Control and Numerics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2048, 245-339. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27893-8_5

MLA:

Ervedoza, Sylvain, and Enrique Zuazua. "The Wave Equation: Control and Numerics." Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2048 (2012): 245-339.

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