Exact Finite Dimensional Feedback Control via Inertial Manifold Theory with Application to the Chafee–Infante Equation

Abstract

A class of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered, and an exact finite dimensional feedback control law is designed in order to force the systems to behave in a prescribed way. The feedback law is obtained via inertial manifold theory by reducing the system to finite dimensions. The control achieved is exact, as opposed to approximate, as obtained in a previous work. The result is applied to the Chafee–Infante equation, a one-dimensional scalar reaction-diffusion equation, with distributed control.