The Exponential Stabilization of a Heat and Piezoelectric Beam Interaction with Static or Hybrid Feedback Controllers

A system of partial differential equations (PDE) of a heat-transferring copper rod and a magnetizable piezoelectric beam, describing the longitudinal vibrations and the total charge accumulation at the electrodes of the beam, is considered in the transmission line setting. For magnetizable piezoelectric beams, traveling electromagnetic and mechanical waves are able to interact strongly despite a huge difference in velocities. It is known that the heat and beam interactions in the open-loop setting does not yield exponentially stability with the thermal effects only. Therefore, two types of boundary-type state feedback controllers are proposed. (i) Both feedback controllers are chosen static. (ii) The electrical controller of the piezoelectric beam is chosen dynamic to accelerate the system dynamics. The PDE system for each case is shown to have exponentially stable solutions by cleverly-constructed Lyapunov functions with various multipliers. The proposed proof technique is in line with proving the exponential stability of Finite-Difference-based robust model reductions as the discretization parameter tends to zero.