Feedback Stabilization of a Two-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction System with Mixed Boundary Conditions

We study the stabilization of a fluid-structure interaction system around an unstable stationary solution. The system consists of coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, in a two dimensional polygonal domain with mixed boundary conditions, and a damped Euler-Bernoulli beam equations located at the boundary of the fluid domain. The control acts only in the beam equations. The feedback is determined by stabilizing the projection of the linearized model onto a finite dimensional invariant subspace. Here we have resolved two important challenges for applications in this field. One is the fact that we prove a stabilization result around a non zero stationary solution, which is new for such fluid-structure interaction systems. The other one is that the feedback laws that we determine do not depend on the Leray projector used to get rid of the algebraic constraints of partial differential equations. This is essential for numerical aspects