Stability and decay rate estimates for a nonlinear dispersed flow reactor model with boundary control

We investigate a nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation whose boundary conditions contain a single control input. This model describes a chemical reaction of the type ''$A \to $ product'', occurring in a dispersed flow tubular reactor. The existence and uniqueness of solutions to the nonlinear Cauchy problem under consideration are established by applying the theory of strongly continuous semigroups of operators. Using Lyapunov's direct method, a feedback control design that ensures the exponential stability of the steady state is proposed, and the exponential decay rate of solutions is evaluated.
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