Controllability of 2D Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations by Forcing 4 Modes

Abstract

We study controllability issues for the 2D Euler and Navier-Stokes (NS) systems under periodic boundary conditions. These systems describe motion of homogeneous ideal or viscous incompressible fluid on a two-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^2$. We assume the system to be controlled by a degenerate forcing applied to fixed number of modes. In our previous work \cite{ASpb,AS43,ASDAN} we studied global controllability by means of degenerate forcing for Navier-Stokes (NS) systems with nonvanishing viscosity ($\nu >0$). Methods of differential geometric/Lie algebraic control theory have been used for that study. In the present contribution we improve and extend the controllability results in several aspects: 1) we obtain a stronger sufficient condition for controllability of 2D NS system in an observed component and for $L_2$-approximate controllability; 2) we prove that these criteria are valid for the case of ideal incompressible fluid ($\nu=0)$; 3) we study solid controllability in projection on any finite-dimensional subspace and establish a sufficient criterion for such controllability.