Optimal distributed control of transverse vibration of a plate

adjoint state control function finite differences finite element scheme initial-boundary value problem Kirchhoff plate maximum principle optimal control rectangular plate elements transverse vibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Plates (74K20) Control, switches and devices (``smart materials) in solid mechanics (74M05)

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The authors investigate the optimal control for transverse vibrations of an elastic plate, which are described by the following initial-boundary value problem \(\frac{\partial^2w}{\partial t^2}+c\frac{\partial w}{\partial t}+ L[w]=f\), \(-\frac 12<x<\frac 12\), \(-\frac 12<y<\frac 12\), \(0<t<T\), \(c>0\), \(L[w]= a\frac{\partial ^4w}{\partial x^4}+2ar^2 \frac{\partial ^4w}{\partial x^2\partial y^2}+ar^4 \frac{\partial ^4w}{\partial y^4}\), \(a>0\), \(r>0\), \(w=w_{xx}+ r^2w_{yy}=0\) at \(x=-\frac 12\), \(x=\frac 12\), \(y=-\frac 12\), \(y=\frac 12\), \(w(x,y,0)=\phi (x,y)\), \(w_t(x,y,0)=\psi(x,y)\). The objective is to determine a control function \(f^*(x,y,t)\) which minimizes a measure of displacement and velocity at time \(T.\) It can be expressed in the form \(J(f^*)=\min_{f\in U_{ad}}J(f)\), \(J(f)= \sum_{i=1}^3 \mu_iJ_i(f)\), where \(U_{ad}=L^2(R\times(0,T))\), \(R=(-\frac 12,\frac 12)\times (-\frac 12,\frac 12)\), \(\mu_i\geq 0\), \(i=1,2\), \(\mu_1+\mu_2>0\), \(J_1(f)=\iint_R w^2(x,y,T)f dx dy\), \(J_2(f)=\iint_R w_t^2(x,y,T)f dx dy\), \(\mu_3>0\), \(J_3(f)=\int_0^T\iint_R f^2(x,y,t) dx dy dt\). The problem has been solved through a maximum principle by introducing an adjoint state \(v(x,y,t).\) A finite element scheme with rectangular plate elements and finite differences with respect to the time variable are applied in numerical computation. Numerical results are compared with corresponding known analytical results. No existence, uniqueness and convergence results are available. Reviewer's remark: The authors claim that the control theory of systems described by partial differential equations in contrast with systems described by ordinary differential equations, is not yet fully developed, and hence is an area of on-going research. It is not correct. One of the first basic monographs on these problems appeared in 1968 [\textit{J. L. Lions}, Contrôle optimal de systèmes gouvernés par des equations aux derivées partielles. (Optimal'noe upravlenie sistemami, opisyvaemymi uravnenijami s častnymi proizvodnymi.) Üebersetzung aus dem Französischen von N. H. Rozov. Herausgegeben von R. V. Gamkrelidze. (Russian) Moskau; Verlag ``Mir (1972; Zbl 0238.49001)], and since that time a tremendous number of works on these problems have been published. The most of problems being solved nowadays are nonlinear with various restrictions on state and control variables, which is not the case of the problem presented in the reviewed paper.

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