Unique continuation property near a corner and its fluid-structure controllability consequences

Author: Osses Axel   Puel Jean-Pierre  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1262-3377|15|2|279-294

ISSN: 1292-8119

Source: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Vol.15, Iss.2, 2008-03, pp. : 279-294

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Abstract

We study a non standard unique continuation property for the biharmonic spectral problem $\Delta^2 w=-\lambda\Delta w$ in a 2D corner with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and a supplementary third order boundary condition on one side of the corner. We prove that if the corner has an angle $0<\theta_0<2\pi$, $\theta_0\not=\pi$ and $\theta_0\not=3\pi/2$, a unique continuation property holds. Approximate controllability of a 2-D linear fluid-structure problem follows from this property, with a control acting on the elastic side of a corner in a domain containing a Stokes fluid. The proof of the main result is based in a power series expansion of the eigenfunctions near the corner, the resolution of a coupled infinite set of finite dimensional linear systems, and a result of Kozlov, Kondratiev and Mazya, concerning the absence of strong zeros for the biharmonic operator [Math. USSR Izvestiya 34 (1990) 337–353]. We also show how the same methodology used here can be adapted to exclude domains with corners to have a local version of the Schiffer property for the Laplace operator.