On the Uniform Controllability of the Inviscid and Viscous Burgers-$α$ Systems

Abstract: This work is devoted to prove the global uniform exact controllability of the inviscid and viscous Burgers-$\alpha$ systems. The state $y$ is the solution to a regularized Burgers equation, where the transport velocity $z$ consists of a filtered version of $y$ - specifically $z=(Id-\alpha^2\partial^2_ {xx})^{-1}y$ with $\alpha>0$ being a small parameter - in place of $y$. First, a global uniform exact controllability result for the nonviscous Burgers-$\alpha$ system with three scalar controls is obtained, using the return method. Then, global exact controllability to constant states of the viscous system is deduced from a local exact controllability result and a global approximate controllability result for smooth initial and target states.