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Controllability results for cascade systems of $m$ coupled $N$-dimensional Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems by $N-1$ scalar controls

Analysis of PDEs 2022-04-13 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the controllability properties of a system of mm coupled Stokes systems or mm coupled Navier-Stokes systems. We show the null-controllability of such systems in the case where the coupling is in a cascade form and when the control acts only on one of the systems. Moreover, we impose that this control has a vanishing component so that we control a m×Nm\times N state (corresponding to the velocities of the fluids) by N1N-1 distributed scalar controls. The proof of the controllability of the coupled Stokes system is based on a Carleman estimate for the adjoint system. The local null-controllability of the coupled Navier-Stokes systems is then obtained by means of the source term method and a Banach fixed point.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09856,
  title  = {Controllability results for cascade systems of $m$ coupled $N$-dimensional Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems by $N-1$ scalar controls},
  author = {Takéo Takahashi and Luz de Teresa and Ying Wu-Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09856},
  year   = {2022}
}