arXiv · 2307.04064
Local null controllability of a class of non-Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids
Abstract
We investigate the null controllability property of systems that mathematically describe the dynamics of some non-Newtonian incompressible viscous flows. The principal model we study was proposed by O. A. Ladyzhenskaya, although the techniques we develop here apply to other fluids having a shear-dependent viscosity. Taking advantage of the Pontryagin Minimum Principle, we utilize a bootstrapping argument to prove that sufficiently smooth controls to the forced linearized Stokes problem exist, as long as the initial data in turn has enough regularity. From there, we extend the result to the nonlinear problem. As a byproduct, we devise a quasi-Newton algorithm to compute the states and a control, which we prove to converge in an appropriate sense. We finish the work with some numerical experiments.
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Pitágoras de Carvalho, Juan Límaco, Denilson Menezes, Yuri Thamsten. 2023-07-09. Local null controllability of a class of non-Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids. https://doi.org/10.3934/eect.2021043
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