Weak damping for the Korteweg-de Vries equation

Abstract

For more than 20 years, the Korteweg–de Vries equation has been intensively explored from the mathematical point of view. Regarding control theory, when adding an internal force term in this equation, it is well known that the Korteweg–de Vries equation is exponentially stable in a bounded domain. In this work, we propose a weak forcing mechanism, with a lower cost than that already existing in the literature, to achieve the result of the global exponential stability to the Korteweg–de Vries equation.

Keywords

• kdv equation
• stabilization
• observability inequality
• unique continuation property