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| author | Lhachemi, Hugo Prieur, Christophe Trélat, Emmanuel |
| author_facet | Lhachemi, Hugo Prieur, Christophe Trélat, Emmanuel |
| contents | We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and drives the heat equation through an internal coupling. We provide a sharp minimal time for the hyperbolic part (T > 2L) and a complete spectral characterization of exact controllability in weighted Hilbert spaces, whose definition depends explicitly on the coupling profile through a sequence of modal coefficients. In particular, internal couplings may generate nonstandard highly irregular controllability spaces and yield a generic (full measure) but non-robust controllability property. The analysis relies on Riesz basis decompositions and on an Ingham-M{ü}ntz inequality. We also prove that the exact controllability space is not invariant along Hilbert Uniqueness Method trajectories: even if both endpoints belong to the controllability space, the associated minimal-energy trajectory may leave it at intermediate times. Finally, we compare with the reversed (heat-wave) cascade and discuss how reversing the direction of the coupling transfers the loss of regularity between the parabolic and hyperbolic components. |
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| spellingShingle | Controllability of wave-heat and heat-wave cascades Lhachemi, Hugo Prieur, Christophe Trélat, Emmanuel Optimization and Control We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and drives the heat equation through an internal coupling. We provide a sharp minimal time for the hyperbolic part (T > 2L) and a complete spectral characterization of exact controllability in weighted Hilbert spaces, whose definition depends explicitly on the coupling profile through a sequence of modal coefficients. In particular, internal couplings may generate nonstandard highly irregular controllability spaces and yield a generic (full measure) but non-robust controllability property. The analysis relies on Riesz basis decompositions and on an Ingham-M{ü}ntz inequality. We also prove that the exact controllability space is not invariant along Hilbert Uniqueness Method trajectories: even if both endpoints belong to the controllability space, the associated minimal-energy trajectory may leave it at intermediate times. Finally, we compare with the reversed (heat-wave) cascade and discuss how reversing the direction of the coupling transfers the loss of regularity between the parabolic and hyperbolic components. |
| title | Controllability of wave-heat and heat-wave cascades |
| topic | Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18212 |