Local null controllability of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes system with a distributed control having two vanishing components

By Jean-Michel Coron, Pierre Lissy. Inventiones Mathematicae, 2012

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In this paper, we prove a local null controllability result for the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations on a (smooth) bounded domain of R3\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\mathbb R}^3$$\end{document} with null Dirichlet boundary conditions. The control is distributed in an arbitrarily small nonempty open subset and has two vanishing components. Lions and Zuazua proved that the linearized system is not necessarily null controllable even if the control is distributed on the entire domain, hence the standard linearization method fails. We use the return method together with a new algebraic method inspired by the works of Gromov and previous results by Gueye.

Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Control and Systems Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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