Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Mohamed Ghattassi
got a paper accepted on January 25 2018. His paper entitled "State observer design for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Parabolic systems" was accepted at the 2018 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE. In this paper, Ghattassi
et. all proposed a state observer for a coupled
two dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) system
used to describe the heat transfer in a membrane distillation
system for water desalination. The mathematical model based
on reaction-diffusion system is introduced. Sufficient conditions
for the exponential convergence of the estimation error is
presented using Lyapunov method. A numerical example is also
provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed observer.