Special Session 99: Emerging Trends in Analysis and Control of PDEs

Controllability properties of coupled PDEs
Emmanuel TRELAT
Sorbonne University
France
Co-Author(s):    Hugo Lhachemi, Christophe Prieur, Emmanuel Tr\`elat
Abstract:
In a series of works with Hugo Lhachemi and Christophe Prieur, we investigate the controllability properties of some coupled PDEs, which can be of different natures. For a heat-wave PDE with coupling at the boundary, we establish exact, exact null and approximate controllability in appropriate Hilbert spaces, under sharp assumptions. Our approach relies on an Ingham-M\untz inequality, allowing us to establish an observability inequality for the dual problem. The resulting controllability space, which depends on the coupling function and is characterized in a spectral way, is not a usual functional space. I will also give some results for other cascade systems, providing new results for coupled heat equations where interesting changes happen at some specific times in the controllability properties.