H–control theory of fluid dynamics

Abstract
Robust (or H–) control theory has been an expanding subject in recent years because of its wide applications and its close connection to operator theory on Hardy spaces. We develop an H–control theory for fluid dynamics. Our result establishes that if the H–control problem for the linearized Navier–Stokes equation has a γ–suboptimal solution, then the corresponding H–control problem for the nonlinear system has a solution for small perturbations of the steady solution. The proof relies on the existence of positively invariant manifolds for certain Hamiltonian systems.

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