Data assimilation and null controllability of degenerate/singular parabolic problems

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2017-05-17

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Atifi, Khalid
Essoufi, El-Hassan

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Texas State University, Department of Mathematics

Abstract

In this article, we use the variational method in data assimilation to study numerically the null controllability of degenerate/singular parabolic problem ∂tψ - ∂x (xα∂xψ(x)) - λ/xβ ψ = ƒ, (x, t) ∈]0, 1[X]0, T[, ψ(x, 0) = ψ0, ψ|x=0 = ψ|x=1 = 0. To do this, we determine the source term ƒ with the aim of obtaining ψ(·, T) = 0, for all ψ0 ∈ L2(]0, 1[). This problem can be formulated in a least-squares framework, which leads to a non-convex minimization problem that is solved using a regularization approach. Also we present some numerical experiments.

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Data assimilation, Null controllability, Regularization, Heat equation, Inverse problem, Degenerate equations, Optimization

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Atifi, K., & Essoufi, E. H. (2017). Data assimilation and null controllability of degenerate/singular parabolic problems. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2017</i>(135), pp. 1-17.

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