Local null-controllability of a system coupling Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-KdV and elliptic equations

TL;DR

This paper establishes the null-controllability of a coupled Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-KdV and elliptic PDE system at any positive time, using Carleman estimates and fixed point techniques for both linear and nonlinear cases.

Contribution

It demonstrates the null-controllability of a mixed parabolic-elliptic PDE system with explicit control cost estimates and extends results to nonlinear systems via a fixed point approach.

Findings

Linearized system is globally null-controllable with localized control.

Explicit control cost estimate of Ce^{C/T} for the linear system.

Small-time local null-controllability of the nonlinear system.

Abstract

This paper deals with the null-controllability of a system of {\em mixed parabolic-elliptic pdes} at any given time $T>0$. More precisely, we consider the \textit{Kuramoto-Sivashinsky--Korteweg-de Vries equation} coupled with a second order elliptic equation posed in the interval $(0,1)$. We first show that the linearized system is globally null-controllable by means of a localized interior control acting on either the KS-KdV or the elliptic equation. Using the \textit{Carleman approach}, we provide the existence of a control with the explicit cost $Ce^{C/T}$ with some constant $C>0$ independent in $T$. Then, applying the source term method followed by the \textit{Banach fixed point theorem}, we conclude the small-time local null-controllability result of the nonlinear systems.