Abstract

This paper studies the internal control of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation on a bounded domain. The diffusion coefficient is time-dependent and the boundary conditions are mixed in the sense that homogeneous Dirichlet and periodic Neumann boundary conditions are considered. The exact controllability to the trajectories is proven for a linearized system by using duality and getting a new Carleman estimate. Then, using an inversion theorem we deduce the local exact controllability to the trajectories for the original KdVB equation, which is nonlinear. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.