Indirect Boundary Controllability of Coupled Degenerate Wave Equations

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a system of two degenerate wave equations coupled through the velocities, only one of them being controlled. We assume that the coupling parameter is sufficiently small and we focus on null controllability problem. To this aim, using multiplier techniques and careful energy estimates, we first establish an indirect observability estimate for the corresponding adjoint system. Then, by applying the Hilbert Uniqueness Method, we show that the indirect boundary controllability of the original system holds for a sufficiently large time.