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Controllability properties of a partial differential equation (PDE) model describing a thermoelastic plate are studied. The PDE is comprised of a Kirchoff plate equation coupled to a heat equation on a bounded domain, with the coupling taking place on the interior and boundary of the domain. The coupling in this PDE is parameterized by α > 0. Control is exerted through the (two) free boundary conditions of the plate equation, and through the Robin boundary condition of the temperature. These controls have the physical interpretation, respectively, of inserted forces and moments, and prescribed temperature, all of which act on the edges of the plate. The main result here is that under such boundary control, and with initial data in the basic space of wellposedness, one can simultaneously control the displacement of the plate exactly,and the temperature approximately. Moreover, the thermal control may be taken to be arbitrarily smooth in time and space, and the thermal control region may be any nonempty subset of the boundary. This controllability holds for arbitrary values of the coupling parameter α.
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Avalos, G., Lasiecka, I. (1999). Exact-Approximate Boundary Controllability of Thermoelastic Systems under Free Boundary Conditions. In: Chen, S., Li, X., Yong, J., Zhou, X.Y. (eds) Control of Distributed Parameter and Stochastic Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35359-3_1
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