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We present a direct proof of asymptotic consensus in the non‐linear Hegselmann–Krause model with transmission‐type delay, where the communication weights depend on the particle distance in phase space. Our approach is based on an explicit estimate of the shrinkage of the group diameter on finite time intervals and avoids the usage of Lyapunov‐type functionals or results from non‐negative matrix theory. It works for both the original formulation of the model with communication weights scaled by the number of agents, and the modification with weights normalized a'la Motsch–Tadmor. We pose only minimal assumptions on the model parameters. In particular, we only assume global positivity of the influence function, without imposing any conditions on its decay rate or monotonicity. Moreover, our result holds for any length of the delay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three control problems for the system of two coupled differential equations governing the dynamics of an energy harvesting model are studied. The system consists of the equation of an Euler–Bernoulli beam model and the equation representing the Kirchhoff's electric circuit law. Both equations contain coupling terms representing the inverse and direct piezoelectric effects. The system is reformulated as a single evolution equation in the state space of 3‐component functions. The control is introduced as a separable forcing term g(x)f(t) on the right‐hand side of the operator equation. The first control problem deals with an explicit construction of f(t) that steers an initial state to zero on a time interval [0, T]. The second control problem deals with the construction of f(t) such that the voltage output is equal to some given function v(t) (with g(x) being given as well). The third control problem deals with an explicit construction of both the force profile, g(x), and the control, f(t), which generate the desired voltage output v(t). Interpolation theory in the Hardy space of analytic functions is used in the solution of the second and third problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider measure functional differential equations (we write measure FDEs) of the form [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is the second in a set of two papers, which are devoted to a unified approach to the problem of completeness of the generalized eigenvectors (the root vectors) for a specific class of linear non-selfadjoint unbounded matrix differential operators. The list of the problems for which such operators are the dynamics generators includes the following: ( a) initial boundary-value problem (IBVP) for a non-homogeneous string with both distributed and boundary damping; ( b) IBVP for small vibrations of an ideal filament with a one-parameter family of dissipative boundary conditions at one end and with a heavy load at the other end; this filament problem is treated for two cases of the boundary parameter: non-singular and singular; ( c) IBVP for a three-dimensional damped wave equation with spherically symmetric coefficients and both distributed and boundary damping; ( d) IBVP for a system of two coupled hyperbolic equations constituting a Timoshenko beam model with variable coefficients and boundary damping; ( e) IBVP for a coupled Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam model with boundary energy dissipation (the model known in engineering literature as bending-torsion vibration model); ( f) IBVP for two coupled Timoshenko beams model, which is currently accepted as an appropriate model describing vibrational behavior of a longer double-walled carbon nanotube. Problems [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]