Feedback boundary stabilization for a viscous incompressible fluid with Navier slip boundary conditions in interaction with a damped beam

Abstract

We show the stabilization by a finite number of controllers of a fluid–structure interaction system where the fluid is modeled by the Navier–Stokes system into a periodical canal and where the structure is an elastic wall localized on top of the fluid domain. The elastic deformation of the structure follows a damped beam equation. We also assume that the fluid can slip on its boundaries and we model this by using the Navier slip boundary conditions. Our result states the local exponential stabilization around a stationary state of strong solutions by using dynamical controllers in order to handle the compatibility conditions at initial time. The proof is based on a change of variables to write the fluid–structure interaction system in a fixed domain and on the stabilization of the linearization of the corresponding system around the stationary state. One of the main difficulties consists in handling the nonlinear terms coming from the change of variables in the boundary conditions.