Stability of the solutions to a nonlinear impulsive Caputo fractional differential equation is studied using Lyapunov like functions. The derivative of piecewise continuous Lyapunov functions among the nonlinear impulsive Caputo differential equation of fractional order is defined. This definition is a natural generalization of the Caputo fractional Dini derivative of a function. Several suffic...

Stabilization involves finding feedback controllers which stabilize the closed-loop system in the finite-time sense. Stability and control have been developed in the literature using Lyapunov-like method. In this paper, we develop a general framework for stabilization of linear differential-algebraic equations with time-varying delay. Based on Lyapunov-like function method and new bound estimat...

Lagrangian coherent structures play an important role in the analysis of unsteady vector fields because they represent the timedependent analog to vector field topology. Nowadays, they are often obtained as ridges in the finite-time Lyapunov exponent of the vector field. However, one drawback of this quantity is its very high computational cost because a trajectory needs to be computed for ever...

We consider the class of closed generic fluid networks (GFN) models, which provides an abstract framework containing a wide variety of fluid networks. Within this framework a Lyapunov method for stability of GFN models was proposed by Ye and Chen. They proved that stability of a GFN model is equivalent to the existence of a functional on the set of paths that is decaying along paths. This resul...