The main objective of this work is to study the stability of a linear one-dimensional thermoelastic Bresse system in a bounded domain, where the coupling is given through the first component of the Bresse model with the heat conduction of Gurtin-Pipkin type. Two kinds of coupling are considered; the first coupling is of order one with respect to space variable, and the second one is of order zero. We state the well-posedness and show the polynomial and strong stability of the systems for regular and weak solutions, respectively, where the polynomial decay rates depend on the smoothness of the initial data. Moreover, in case of coupling of order one, we prove the equivalence between the exponential stability and some new conditions on the parameters of the system. However, when the coupling is of order zero, we prove the non-exponential stability independently of the parameters of the system. Applications to the corresponding particular Timoshenko models are also given, where we prove that both couplings lead to the exponential stability if and only if some conditions on the parameters of the systems are satisfied, and both couplings guarantee the polynomial and strong stability for regular and weak solutions, respectively, independently of the parameters of the systems. The proof of the well-posedness result is based on the semigroups theory, whereas a combination of the energy method and the frequency domain approach is used for the proof of the stability results.

For the details, see the following paper:

A. Guesmia, Well-posedness and stability results for thermoelastic Bresse and Timoshenko type systems with Gurtin-Pipkin’s law through the vertical displacements, SeMa J., (2023), 1-49.

The objective of this work is to study the stability of two systems of type Rao-Nakra sandwich beam in the whole line $R$ with a frictional damping or an infinite memory acting on the Euler-Bernoulli equation. When the speeds of propagation of the two wave equations are equal, we show that the solutions do not converge to zero when time goes to infinity. In the reverse situation, we prove some $L^2(R)$-norm and $L^1(R)$-norm decay estimates of solutions and theirs higher order derivatives with respect to the space variable. Thanks to interpolation inequalities and Carlson inequality, these $L^2(R)$-norm and $L^1(R)$-norm decay estimates lead to similar ones in the $L^q(R)$-norm, for any $q\in [1,+\mathrm{\infty }]$. In our both $L^2(R)$-norm and $L^1(R)$-norm decay estimates, we specify the decay rates in terms of the regularity of the initial data and the nature of the control. Applications to some Cauchy Timoshenko type systems will be also given. The proof is based on the energy method combined with the Fourier analysis (by using the transformation in the Fourier space and well chosen multipliers).

A part of these results was obtained in collaboration with Salim Messaoudi (University of Sharjah, UAE).

For the details, see the following papers:

A. Guesmia, Some $L^q(R)$-norm decay estimates ($q\in [1,+\mathrm{\infty }]$) for two Cauchy systems of type Rao-Nakra sandwich beam with a frictional damping or an infinite memory, J. Appl. Anal. Comp., 12 (2022), 2511-2540.
A. Guesmia, On the stability of a linear Cauchy Rao-Nakra sandwich beam under frictional dampings, Taiwanese J. Math., 27 (2023), 799-811.
A. Guesmia and S. Messaoudi, Some $L^2(R)$-norm and $L^1(R)$-norm decay estimates for Cauchy Timoshenko type systems with a frictional damping or an infinite memory, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 527 (2023), 127385.

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This is an introductory talk to mathematics of active biosystems. The goal is to illustrate by simple examples how  mathematics changes when transition from traditional physics/materials problems to PDEs in biology. Before jumping into mathematics we present experimental videos of striking biological phenomena that motivate our study. The talk consists of three parts. First we give a brief introduction to homogenization theory which is a powerful mathematical tool for studying multiscale problems. Next we describe a PDE model of collective behavior for swimming bacteria and present mathematical results on the effective viscosity of bacterial suspensions. Finally we present a phase field PDE model of a crawling cell on a substrate and describe its surprising features such as self-sustained motion (traveling wave solutions) and spontaneous breaking of symmetry. In conclusion, we briefly discuss the concept of interdisciplinary mathematics.

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Cet exposé présentera des modèles mathématiques de la fermeture de trous dans des tissus épithéliaux. Ces modèles mettent en évidence l’importance de la géométrie des bords (en particulier la courbure locale à  chaque point de la frontière du tissu) et de l’adhésion à  la matrice extra-cellulaire pour la détermination du type de mécanisme de fermeture dominant.

L’équation de Klein-Gordon peut être écrite dans un cadre assez général sous la forme $(partia{l}_t^2-2ikpartia{l}_t+h)u=0$, o๠$h$ et $k$ sont des opérateurs autoadjoints. Lorsque $h$ n’est pas positif l’énergie naturelle conservée $Vertpartia{l}_{t}uVer{t}^2+(hu,u)$ n’est pas positive et en général aucune énergie positive conservée n’est disponible. De tels phénomènes apparaissent lorsque l’équation de Klein-Gordon est couplée à  un champ électrique fort o๠lorsqu’elle provient d’une géométrie lorentzienne sans champ de Killing global de type temps. Dans ce cas on parle souvent de superradiance. Un exemple typique est la métrique de De Sitter Kerr qui décrit des trous noirs en rotation. Nous allons décrire comment on peut obtenir dans un tel cadre des résultats de complétude asymptotique et donner quelques applications à  la métrique de De Sitter Kerr. Il s’agit d’un travail en collaboration avec Christian Gérard et Vladimir Georgescu.

The purpose of our talk is to introduce a framework that enables one to study general homogenization problems. We study the qualitative properties of generalized Besicovitch spaces, and prove some general compactness results related to these spaces. We then apply them to study some new homogenization problems.

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Sur quelques exemples simples de contrôle de systèmes d’équations paraboliques, quelques faits inhabituels dans le cas scalaire surgissent. Il apparaît que contrôlabilité approchée et contrôlabilité aux trajectoires ne sont pas toujours équivalentes, qu’il peut apparaître un temps minimal de contrôle et que contrôlabilité par le bord et contrôlabilité interne ne se déduisent pas l’une de l’autre et ne sont pas équivalentes.