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20152026
most citedOn the numerical controllability of the two-dimensional heat, Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations

18 citations · 96 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

math.AP2026

Characterizing the breakdown of the maximum principle in a class of nonlocal elliptic problems

João R. Santos Júnior, Silvia Sastre-Gómez, Diego A. Souza

In this paper, we consider a nonlocal elliptic equation involving a nonnegative parameter that quantifies the strength of the nonlocal term, posed in a smooth bounded domain wi…

math.AP2025

Optimal cost for the null controllability of the Stokes system with controls having components and applications

Felipe W. Chaves-Silva, Marcos G. Ferreira-Silva, Diego A. Souza

In this work, we investigate the optimal cost of null controllability for the -dimensional Stokes system when the control acts on scalar components. We establish a novel s…

math.OC2024

Numerical null controllability of parabolic PDEs using Lagrangian methods

Enrique Fernandez-Cara, Roberto Morales, Diego A. Souza

In this paper, we study several theoretical and numerical questions concerning the null controllability problems for linear parabolic equations and systems for several dimensions.…

math.OC2024★ 15 cited

A mixed formulation for the direct approximation of -weighted controls for the linear heat equation

Arnaud Münch, Diego A. Souza

This paper deals with the numerical computation of null controls for the linear heat equation. The goal is to compute approximations of controls that drive the solution from a pres…

math.OC2024★ 5 cited

Remarks on the control of two-phase Stefan free-boundary problems

Raul K. C. Araújo, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Juan Límaco +1

This paper concerns the null controllability of the two-phase 1D Stefan problem with distributed controls. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification or melting pro…

math.OC2024★ 14 cited

Boundary controllability of incompressible Euler fluids with Boussinesq heat effects

Enrique Fernández-Cara, Maurício C. Santos, Diego A. Souza

This paper deals with the boundary controllability of inviscid incompressible fluids for which thermal effects are important. They will be modeled through the so called Boussinesq…

math.OC2024★ 18 cited

On the numerical controllability of the two-dimensional heat, Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations

Enrique Fernández-Cara, Arnaud Münch, Diego A. Souza

The aim of this work is to present some strategies to solve numerically controllability problems for the two-dimensional heat equation, the Stokes equations and the Navier-Stokes e…

math.OC2024★ 7 cited

Uniform local null control of the Leray- model

Fágner D. Araruna, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

This paper deals with the distributed and boundary controllability of the so called Leray- model. This is a regularized variant of the Navier-Stokes system ( is a small posit…

math.OC2024★ 4 cited

On the control of the Burgers-alpha model

Fágner D. Araruna, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

This work is devoted to prove the local null controllability of the Burgers- model. The state is the solution to a regularized Burgers equation, where the transport term is of t…

math.OC2024★ 4 cited

On the control of some coupled systems of the Boussinesq kind with few controls

Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

This paper is devoted to prove the local exact controllability to the trajectories for a coupled system, of the Boussinesq kind, with a reduced number of controls. In the state sys…

math.AP2023

Quantitative unique continuation for real-valued solutions to second order elliptic equations in the plane

Kévin Le Balc'h, Diego A. Souza

In this article, we study a quantitative form of the Landis conjecture on exponential decay for real-valued solutions to second order elliptic equations with variable coefficients…

math.OC2022

Remarks on the controllability of parabolic systems with non-diagonalizable diffusion matrix

Michel Duprez, Manuel González-Burgos, Diego A. Souza

The distributed null controllability for coupled parabolic systems with non-diagonalizable diffusion matrices with a reduced number of controls has been studied in the case of cons…

math.AP2022★ 3 cited

Exact controllability to the trajectories of the one-phase Stefan problem

Jon Asier Bárcena-Petisco, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

This paper deals with the exact controllability to the trajectories of the one--phase Stefan problem in one spatial dimension. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidific…

math.OC2020

Switching Controls for Analytic Semigroups and Applications to Parabolic Systems

Felipe W. Chaves-Silva, Sylvain Ervedoza, Diego A. Souza

In this work, we push further the analysis of the problem of switching controls proposed in [E. Zuazua, Switching control, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS), 13(1): 85--117, 2011]. The pro…

math.AP2020

On the Uniform Controllability of the Inviscid and Viscous Burgers- Systems

Raul K. C. Araújo, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

This work is devoted to prove the global uniform exact controllability of the inviscid and viscous Burgers- systems. The state is the solution to a regularized Burgers equat…

math.AP2020★ 9 cited

Small-time global exact controllability to the trajectories for the viscous Boussinesq system

F. W. Chaves-Silva, E. Fernández-Cara, K. Le Balc'h +2

In this paper, we deal with the global exact controllability to the trajectories of the Boussinesq system. We consider 2D and 3D smooth bounded domains. The velocity field of the f…

math.AP2019

On Some Geometric Inverse Problems for Nonscalar Elliptic Systems

Raul K. C. Araújo, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

In this paper, we consider several geometric inverse problems for linear elliptic systems. We prove uniqueness and stability results. In particular, we show the way that the observ…

math.AP2018★ 1 cited

Non null controllability of Stokes equations with memory

Enrique Fernández-Cara, José Lucas F. Machado, Diego A. Souza

In this paper, we study the null controllability of the three-dimensional Stokes equations with a memory term. For any positive final time , we construct initial conditions su…

math.AP2018★ 5 cited

On the controllability of some equations of Sobolev-Galpern type

F. W. Chaves-Silva, Diego A. Souza

In this paper we deal with the controllability problem for some Sobolev type equations. We show that the equations cannot be driven to zero if the control region is strictly suppor…

math.OC2017★ 1 cited

Observability inequalities on measurable sets for the Stokes system and applications

Felipe W. Chaves-Silva, Diego A. Souza, Can Zhang

In this paper, we establish spectral inequalities on measurable sets of positive Lebesgue measure for the Stokes operator, as well as an observability inequalities on space-time me…

math.AP2017★ 10 cited

On the One-Dimensional Nonlinear Monodomain Equations with Moving Controls

Karl Kunisch, Diego A. Souza

In this paper local exact controllability to the trajectories for the one-dimensional monodomain equations with the FitzHugh-Nagumo and Rogers-McCulloch ionic models using distribu…

math.OC2015

Inverse problems for linear parabolic equations using mixed formulations - Part 1 : Theoretical analysis

Arnaud Munch, Diego Souza

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear parabolic equations. We consider the reconstruction of the full solutio…