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In order to get the exact boundary controllability in the quasilinear
hyperbolic case, we present a constructive method which works for general
quasilinear hyperbolic systems with general nonlinear boundary conditions
at least in one-dimensional case. The main idea can be shown
as
follows.
In order to realize the exact boundary controllability, it is only necessary
to find a time
T
>
0
such that the given hyperbolic equation (system)
admits
a
classical solution
u
=
u(t,z)
on the domain
[0,
T]
x
n,
which
verifies simultaneously the initial condition
t=O:
u='p(z),
zER
(2)
and the final condition
(1).
In fact, putting
u
=
u(t,
x)
into the boundary
conditions, we get immediately the boundary controls. By uniqueness,
the classical solution to the corresponding mixed initial-boundary value
problem with the initial data
'p
must be
u
=
u(t,x),
which automatically
satisfies the given final data
$.
Moreover, if the solution
u
=
u(t,
z)
constructed above also satisfies
a
part
of
boundary conditions, then we need only to put
u
=
u(t,z)
into
the other part of boundary conditions to get the corresponding boundary
controls, and, as a result, the number
of
boundary controls will be reduced
and the boundary controls can be asked to act only on a part of boundaries,
however, the controllability time will be enlarged.
Of course, for the purpose of application, the controllability time
T
will
be asked to be
as
small
as
possible.
3.
Statement on the exact boundary controllability
of
unsteady flows in a network
of
open canals
We now consider unsteady flows in a network composed
of
N
horizontal and
cylindrical canals. Let
La
be the length of the a-th canal,
a1
and
a0
the
z-coordinates
of
two ends of the a-th canal:
La
=
a1
-
ao
(a
=
1,
. .
.
,
N).
Suppose that there is no friction, the corresponding Saint-Venant system
(cf.
[2],
[14])
is
=
0,
tLO,
ao<~<al
(a=l,...,N),
(3)
where
for
the a-th canal,
A(a)
=
A(")(t,z)
stands
for
the area of the cross
section at
z
occupied by the water at time
t,
V(")
=
V(")(t,z)
the average