Research Interests: Applied Mathematics
Partial differential equations (PDE's) and related control theory
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Nonlinear PDE's. Optimization theory. Calculus of Variations.
Control Theory of PDE's.
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Boundary stabilization, controllability problems for (linear and nonlinear) parabolic and hyperbolic PDE's. Riccati and HJ equations.
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Mathematical control of systems arising in nonlinear PDE's.
Wave propagations, nonlinear systems of dynamic elasticity, Navier Stokes
equations. Noise control, structural acoustic problems, thermoelastic systems and more generally interactive structures.
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Dynamical systems. Nonlinear dissipative PDE systems.
Long time behaviour: Attractors, Inertial manifolds for PDE's.
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Numerical analysis related to control problems governed by PDE's.