Carleman estimate and null controllability for a degenerate convection–diffusion equation
摘要
This paper investigates the null controllability of a control system governed by a convection–diffusion equation with weak degeneracy on the boundary. In this governing equation, the convection term cannot be controlled by the diffusion term. We derive a Carleman estimate for the adjoint system through an appropriate transformation that effectively combines the convection and diffusion terms into a complex union, accompanied by detailed computations. Consequently, we establish the observability inequality, and then the control system is proved to be null controllable.