Boundary Feedback and Observer Synthesis for a Class of Nonlinear Parabolic--Elliptic PDE Systems

Abstract

This paper investigates the stabilization of a coupled system comprising a parabolic PDE and an elliptic PDE with nonlinear terms. A rigorous backstepping design provides an explicit boundary control law and exponentially convergent observers from partial boundary measurements. Several theorems ensure exponential stability and well-posedness of the nonlinear closed-loop system.