Academic Areas: Control theory and simulation of hyperbolic equations

Reserch interests: Boundary stabilization, solutions for nonlinear hyperbolic PDE's, Energy decay of nonlinear hyperbolic systems, Geometry tools

Academic Degrees

PhD, 2008, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing;

Master, 2005, School of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China.

Bachelor, 2001, School of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China.

Professional Experience

Professor (2015.11-present); School of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;

Associate Professor (2012.11-2015.10); School of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;

Lecturer (2009,7-2012,10); School of Mathematics ,Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Selected Publications

1, Li Deng, Zhifei Zhang, Controllability for transmission wave/plate equations on Riemannian manifolds, System Control Letters, 91 (2016), 48–54.

2, Pengfei Yao,  Zhifei Zhang, Weighted L2-estimates of solutions for damped wave equations with variable coefficients, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 2017,1-23.

3, Zhifei Zhang, Fast decay of solutions for wave equations with localized dissipation on noncompact Riemannian manifolds, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 27 (2016), 246–260.

4, Zhifei Zhang;  Stabilization of the wave equation with variable coefficients and a dynamical boundary control, Electron. J. Diff. Equ., Vol. 2016 (2016), No. 27, pp. 1-10.

5, Roberto Triggiani,  Zhifei Zhang, Global uniqueness and stability in determining the electric potential coefficient of an inverse problem for Schrodinger equations on Riemannian manifolds,  Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problem, 23 (2015), no. 6, 587–609.

6, Wen Zhang, Zhifei Zhang, Stabilization of transmission coupled wave and Euler-Bernoulli equations on Riemannian manifolds by nonlinear feedbacks, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 422 (2015), no. 2, 1504–1526.

7, Zhifei Zhang, Pengfei Yao, Global smooth solutions and stabilization of non-linear elastodynamic systems with locally distributed dissipation, Systems and Control Letters, Volume 58, Issue 7 (2009), pp. 491-498.

8, Zhifei Zhang, Pengfei Yao, Global smooth solutions of the quasilinear wave equation with internal velocity feedback, SIAM J. on Control and Optimization, 47(4), 2008, pp.2044-2077.

Courses Taught

Optimization Method

Matrix Theory

Linear Algebra

Project

National Natural Science Foundation of China：61473126, Controllability and inverse problems for wave equations on unbounded domains, 2015/01—2018/12.

National Natural Science Foundation of China：11101166, Research on Controllability for wave equations on interior domains, 2012/01—2014/12.