title: Control of friction at the nanoscale.
abstract: We propose a new algorithm to control frictional dynamics of a small array of particles towards preassigned values of the average sliding velocity. The control is based on the concepts of non-Lipschitzian dynamics and terminal attractor. Extensive numerical simulations illustrate the robustness, efficiency, and convenience of the algorithm.
authors.affiliation: Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Braiman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barhen
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Protopopescu