Special Session 99: Emerging Trends in Analysis and Control of PDEs

Controlling Klein-Gordon Chains and Lattices
Sarah Strikwerda
University of Wisconsin - Madison
USA
Co-Author(s):    Hung Vinh Tran and Minh-Binh Tran
Abstract:
The Klein-Gordon equation is a wave equation with a cubic nonlinearity. This system can be used to describe the interaction of particles on a lattice. I will describe a suitable choice of feedback control to drive the system to a collective flocking behavior in finite time. Finally, I will highlight the connection between our flocking problem and a minimal-time problem in the framework of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations and optimal control theory.