Approximations of Lyapunov functionals for ISS analysis of a class of higher dimensional nonlinear parabolic PDEs

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel method, namely the approximations of Lyapunov functionals, for input-to-state stability (ISS) analysis of a class of higher dimensional nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients. Specifically, for any q∈[1,+∞] and the considered nonlinear parabolic PDEs with different types of boundary disturbances in Llocq(R+;L1(∂Ω)) and initial data in L1(Ω), we show that ISS-like estimates in L1-norm (or weighted L1-norm) can be established by constructing approximations of (coercive and non-coercive) Lyapunov functionals. Some examples are provided to illustrate the application of the proposed method.