TY - JOUR A1 - Gugat, Martin T1 - Boundary Stabilization of Quasi-Linear Hyperbolic Systems with Varying Time-Delay N2 - In this paper we consider the boundary feedback stabilization of a quasi-linear hyperbolic system of balance laws. At one end of the space interval, there is a reflecting boundary condition. At the other end a stabilizing feedback law with a varying time-delay is prescribed. We present sufficient conditions for the exponential stability of the system. We show that exponential stabilization is possible if the product of the length of the interval and an upper bound for the source term is sufficiently small. We also show that if the product of the length of the interval and a lower bound for the source term is sufficiently large, the system is unstable. Our analysis is based on Lyapunov functions with weights that are given by hyperbolic functions that generalize the well-known exponential weights. Compared with previous contributions, we obtain conditions that can be verified more easily in terms of the system parameters. Our results show that for sufficiently short space intervals, and also with varying time-delay, exponential stabilization is possible with appropriately chosen feedback gains that depend on the maximal value of the time-delay and the maximal absolute value of its derivative. KW - boundary stabilization KW - feedback law KW - varying delay KW - quasi-linear hyperbolic system KW - boundary control Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1648570 VL - 63 IS - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization SP - 452 EP - 471 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gugat, Martin A1 - Schuster, Michael T1 - Optimal Neumann Control of the Wave Equation with L1-Control Cost: The Finite-Time Turnpike Property JF - Optimization N2 - The finite-time turnpike property describes a situation where the optimal state reaches a steady state after finite time. The steady state is a solution of a static optimal control problem. We study an optimal control problem where the objective functional is the sum of an 𝐿1-norm control cost with a weight 𝛾>0 and a differentiable tracking term. We consider a vibrating string with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions at one end and Neumann control action at the other end. The tracking term is defined by the squared 𝐿2-norm of a non-collocated Neumann-observation. We show that the problem has a unique solution and that due to the non-smoothness of the 𝐿1-norm for sufficiently large T the optimal state reaches the desired state after a finite time that is equal to the minimal time where exact controllability holds. We also study the effect of smoothing of the control cost on the structure of the optimal control and show that the finite-time turnpike property also holds in the smoothing limit in a strong 𝐿2-sense. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2024.2373904 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gugat, Martin T1 - Synchronization of velocities in pipeline flow of blended gas JF - Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications N2 - We consider the pipeline flflow of blended gas. The flow is governed by a coupled system where for each component we have the isothermal Euler equations with an additional velocity coupling term that couples the velocities of the different components. Our motivation is hydrogen blending in natural gas pipelines, which will play a role in the transition to renewable energies. We show that with suitable boundary conditions the velocities of the gas components synchronize exponentially fast, as long as the L2-norm of the synchronization error is outside of a certain interval where the size of the interval is determined by the order of the interaction terms. This indicates that in some cases for a mixture of ncomponents it is justifified to use a flux model where it is assumed that all components flow with the same velocity. For the proofs we use an appropriately chosen Lyapunov function which is based upon the idea of relative energy. KW - Synchronization of solutions to PDEs KW - Quasi-linear hyperbolic PDE KW - Drift-flux model KW - Lyapunov function KW - Relative energy Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2025.130078 VL - 556 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gugat, Martin A1 - Giesselmann, Jan A1 - Kunkel, Teresa T1 - Exponential synchronization of a nodal observer for a semilinear model for the flow in gas networks N2 - The flow of gas through networks of pipes can be modeled by coupling hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations that describe the flow through the pipes that form the edges of the graph of the network by algebraic node conditions that model the flow through the vertices of the graph. In the network, measurements of the state are available at certain points in space.Based upon these nodal observations, the complete system state can be approximated using an observer system. In this paper we present a nodal observer, and prove that the state of the observer system converges to the original state exponentially fast. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical findings. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/imamci/dnab029 CY - IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gugat, Martin A1 - Herty, Michael A1 - Müller, Siegfried ED - Piccoli, Benedetto T1 - Coupling conditions for the transition from supersonic to subsonic fluid states JF - Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) N2 - We discuss coupling conditions for the p-system in case of a transition from supersonic states to subsonic states. A single junction with adjacent pipes is considered where on each pipe the gas ow is governed by a general p-system. By extending the notion of demand and supply known from traffic fiow analysis we obtain a constructive existence result of solutions compatible with the introduced conditions. KW - p-system KW - coupling conditions KW - network Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2017016 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 371 EP - 380 ER -