Dissipation inequalities for the analysis of a class of PDEs

In this paper, we develop dissipation inequalities for a class of well-posed systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs). We study passivity, reachability, induced input-output norm boundedness, and input-to-state stability (ISS). We consider both cases of in-domain and boundary inputs and outputs. We study the interconnection of PDE-PDE systems and formulate small gain conditions for stability. For PDEs polynomial in dependent and independent variables, we demonstrate that sum-of-squares (SOS) programming can be used to compute certificates for each property. Therefore, the solution to the proposed dissipation inequalities can be obtained via semi-definite programming. The results are illustrated with examples.