# Null-controllability of linear parabolic-transport systems

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the null-controllability of linear parabolic-transport systems on a one-dimensional torus, establishing conditions under which control is possible in optimal time based on spectral analysis.

## Contribution

It introduces a unified framework for controllability of parabolic-hyperbolic systems, providing algebraic conditions and spectral analysis techniques for control feasibility.

## Key findings

- Null-controllability achieved in optimal time with as many controls as equations.
- Necessary and sufficient algebraic conditions for controllability when control acts only on specific components.
- Negative results for small time controllability on high-frequency solutions.

## Abstract

Over the past two decades, the controllability of several examples of parabolic-hyperbolic systems has been investigated. The present article is the beginning of an attempt to find a unified framework that encompasses and generalizes the previous results. We consider constant coefficients heat-transport systems with coupling of order zero and one, with a locally distributed control in the source term, posed on the one dimensional torus. We prove the null-controllability, in optimal time (the one expected because of the transport component) when there is as much controls as equations. When the control acts only on the transport (resp. parabolic) component, we prove an algebraic necessary and sufficient condition, on the coupling term, for the null controllability. The whole study relies on a careful spectral analysis, based on perturbation theory. The negative controllability result in small time is proved on solutions localized on high hyperbolic frequencies, that solve a pure transport equation up to a compact term. The proof of the positive result in large time relies on a spectral decomposition into low, and asymptotically parabolic or hyperbolic frequencies.