A Complete Inverse Optimality Study for a Tank-Liquid System

This paper presents a complete inverse optimality study for a linearized tank-liquid system where the liquid is described by the viscous Saint-Venant model with surface tension and possible wall friction. We define an appropriate weak solution notion for which we establish existence/uniqueness results with inputs that do not necessarily satisfy any compatibility condition as well as stabilization results with feedback laws that are constructed with the help of a Control Lyapunov Functional. We show that the proposed family of stabilizing feedback laws is optimal for a certain meaningful quadratic cost functional. Finally, we show that the optimal feedback law guarantees additional stronger stability estimates which are similar to those obtained in the case of classical solutions.