Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Vol. 2002(2002), No. 21, pp. 1-26.

Stabilization of heteregeneous Maxwell's equations by linear or nonlinear boundary feedbacks

Matthias Eller, John E. Lagnese, & Serge Nicaise

Abstract:
We examine the question of stabilization of the (nonstationary) heteregeneous Maxwell's equations in a bounded region with a Lipschitz boundary by means of linear or nonlinear Silver-Muller boundary condition. This requires the validity of some stability estimate in the linear case that may be checked in some particular situations. As a consequence we get an explicit decay rate of the energy, for instance exponential, polynomial or logarithmic decays are available for appropriate feedbacks. Based on the linear stability estimate, we further obtain certain exact controllability results for the Maxwell system.

Submitted October 23, 2001. Published February 21, 2002.
Math Subject Classifications: 93D15, 93B05, 93C20.
Key Words: Maxwell's system, controllability, stability, nonlinear feedbacks.

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Matthias Eller
Department of Mathematics
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057 USA
e-mail: eller@math.georgetown.edu
John E. Lagnese
Department of Mathematics
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057 USA
e-mail: lagnese@math.georgetown.edu
Serge Nicaise
Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambresis
MACS, Institut des Sciences et Techniques de Valenciennes
59313 - Valenciennes Cedex 9 France
email: snicaise@univ-valenciennes.fr

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