Controllability Problems for the Heat Equation with Variable Coefficients on a Half-Axis Controlled by the Neumann Boundary Condition

Abstract

In the paper, the problems of controllability and approximate controllability are studied for the control system $w_t=\frac{1}{\rho }{\left(k{w}_x\right)}_x+\gamma w$, ${\left(\sqrt{\frac{k}{\rho }}{w}_x\right)|}_{x=0}=u$, $x>0$, $t\in (0,T)$, where $u$ is a control, $u\in L^{\infty }(0,T)$. It is proved that each initial state of the control system is approximately controllable to any target state in a given time $T>0$. To obtain this result, the transformation operator generated by the equation data $\rho$, $k$, $\gamma$ is applied. The results are illustrated by examples.