Birth control and turnpike property of Lotka-McKendrick models

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate, simultaneously, the null-controllability via the feedback control method and the turnpike property of dynamic systems arising from population dynamics models where the control is localized on the non-local term. These models describe the dynamics of one or several populations with age dependence and spatial structure involving time. By considering control functions localized with respect to the spatial variable at the time \(t\) but active for age \( a=0 \), we prove that the entire population can be steered to zero in any positive time \( T>A \) for any data in \( L^2(\Omega\times(0,A)).\) Regarding turnpike property, we use the results of null-controllability and the Phillips'theorem for stability and we design an appropriate dichotomy transformation, based on solutions of the algebraic Riccati and Lyapunov equations. We give numerical examples to support the analytic results.