
2 SAKIL AHAMED AND DEBANJANA MITRA
In this article, we consider the system linearized around a constant steady state (ρs,0,0),
where ρs>0, with distributed controls f1, f2and f3:
∂tρ+ρs∂xu=Of1,in (0, T )×(0, π),
∂tu+aγρsγ−2∂xρ−1
ρs
∂xS=Of2,in (0, T )×(0, π),
∂tS+1
κS−µ
κ∂xu=O3f3,in (0, T )×(0, π),
(1.3)
where Ois the characteristic function of an open set Oj⊂(0, π), j = 1,2,3. We choose the
following initial and boundary conditions for the system (1.3):
(ρ(0) = ρ0, u(0) = u0, S(0) = S0,in (0, π),
u(t, 0) = 0, u(t, π)=0,in (0, T ).(1.4)
Definition 1.2. The system (1.3)-(1.4)is null controllable in (L2(0, π))3at time T > 0, if for
any initial condition (ρ0, u0, S0)>∈L2(0, π)3, there exist controls fi∈L20, T ;L2(Oi), i =
1,2,3,such that the corresponding solution (ρ, u, S)of (1.3)-(1.4)satisfies
(ρ, u, S)>(T, x) = (0,0,0)>for all x∈(0, π).(1.5)
Definition 1.3. The system (1.3)-(1.4)is approximately controllable in the space (L2(0, π))3at
time T > 0, if for any initial condition (ρ0, u0, S0)>∈L2(0, π)3and any other (ρT, uT, ST)>∈
L2(0, π)3and any > 0, there exist controls fi∈L20, T ;L2(Oi), i = 1,2,3,such that the
corresponding solution (ρ, u, S)of (1.3)-(1.4)satisfies
(ρ, u, S)>(T, ·)−(ρT, uT, ST)>
(L2(0,π))3< . (1.6)
Before stating our main results, we mention some related results in this direction from the lit-
erature. The existence of the solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes system with Maxwell’s
law along with the bolw-up results has been studied, for example, in [14,15,29] and references
therein. If κ= 0, then the Maxwell’s law (1.1)3turns into the Newtonion law ˆ
S=µ∂xˆuand the
equation (1.1) becomes Navier-Stokes system of a viscous, compressible, isothermal barotropic
fluid (density is function of pressure only), in a bounded domain (0, π). The controllability of
the compressible Navier-Stokes system around a trajectory has been studied extensively. The
compressible Navier-Stokes system linearized around constant steady state (ρs,0) yields a sys-
tem coupled between an ODE and a parabolic equation. This system with Dirichlet boundary
is considered in [9]. There, the authors have proved that the linearized system is not null con-
trollable using a localized L2-control acting in the velocity equation. However, the system is
approximately controllable at any time T > 0 using a velocity control. The system linearized
around (ρs, us), where us6= 0, with periodic boundary conditions is considered in [6,7]. In
this case, the system is coupled between a transport and a parabolic equation and the null
controllability result using a velocity control is obtained for large enough time T. In [19], the
lack of null controllability of the compressible Navier-Stokes system linearized around (ρs, us)
has been studied in detail. In the case us= 0, the system is not null controllable using any
localized L2-controls at any time T > 0. In the case us6= 0, the same result holds for small time.
The local null controllability of the compressible Navier-Stokes system around a trajectory with
non-zero velocity at large time T > 0 has been obtained in [12,11,13,23,22,24].
Another system relevant to our case is the linearized Maxwell system. In [26], the control
aspects of one-dimensional shear flows of linear Maxwell and Jeffreys system with single or
several relaxation modes have been studied. It is worth mentioning that our lineraized system
(1.3) is similar to the viscoelastic shear flow associated to the multimode Maxwell system
considered in [26] in a sense that both cases the system is coupled between ODEs and the
spectrum of the linear operators behaves similarly. However, there are slight differences in the
coefficients of the equations appearing in [26] compared to our case. In [26], the author has