We discuss the null boundary controllability of a linear thermo-elastic plate. The method employs a smoothing property of the system of PDEs which allows the boundary controls to be calculated directly by solving two Cauchy problems.
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Walter Littman; Stephen Taylor. The balayage method: boundary control of a thermo-elastic plate. Applicationes Mathematicae, Tome 35 (2008) pp. 467-479. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-am35-4-5/