Exact Controllability and Asymptotic Analysis for Shallow Shells

Abstract

The authors consider the exact controllability of the vibrations of a thin shallow shell, of thickness 2ε with controls imposed on the lateral surface and at the top and bottom of the shell. Apart from proving the existence of exact controls, it is shown that the solutions of the three dimensional exact controllability problems converge, as the thickness of the shell goes to zero, to the solution of an exact controllability problem in two dimensions.

Keywords

Exact controllability / Asymptotic analysis / Shallow shells / 74K25

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