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December  2013, 2(4): 669-677. doi: 10.3934/eect.2013.2.669

## Control of blow-up singularities for nonlinear wave equations

 1 Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Moulin de la Housse, B.P. 1039, F-51687 Reims Cedex 2, France

Received  October 2012 Revised  August 2013 Published  November 2013

While the global boundary control of nonlinear wave equations that exhibit blow-up is generally impossible, we show on a typical example, motivated by laser breakdown, that it is possible to control solutions with small data so that they blow up on a prescribed compact set bounded away from the boundary of the domain. This is achieved using the representation of singular solutions with prescribed blow-up surface given by Fuchsian reduction. We outline on this example simple methods that may be of wider applicability.
Citation: Satyanad Kichenassamy. Control of blow-up singularities for nonlinear wave equations. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2013, 2 (4) : 669-677. doi: 10.3934/eect.2013.2.669
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