15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
OPTIMAL MIXING BY FEEDBACK IN PIPE FLOW
Ole Morten Aamo* Andras Balogh** Miroslav Krstic**
* Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
** Department of MAE, University of California at San Diego,
La Jolla, CA92093-0411, USA

We design a Lyapunov based boundary feedback controller for achieving mixing in a 3D pipe flow governed by Navier-Stokes equations. We show that the control law maximizes a measure of mixing that incorporates stretching and folding of material elements, while at the same time minimizing the control effort and the sensing effort. The penalty on sensing results in a static output-feedback control law (rather than full-state feedback). We also derive a lower bound on the gain from the control effort to the mixing measure. Furthermore, we establish input/output-to-state-stability properties for the open-loop system. These results show a form of detectability of mixing in the interior of the pipe from the chosen outputs on the wall. The effectiveness of the optimal control in achieving mixing enhancement is demonstrated in numerical simulations.
Keywords: Nonlinear control systems, Lyapunov methods, Optimality
Session slot T-We-A21: Posters of Nonlinear Systems/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems