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We study controllability issues for 2D and 3D Navier–Stokes (NS) systems with periodic boundary conditions. The systems are controlled by a degenerate (applied to few low modes) forcing. Methods of differential geometric/Lie algebraic control theory are used to establish global controllability of finite-dimensional Galerkin approximations of 2D and 3D NS and Euler systems, global controllability in finite-dimensional projection of 2D NS system and L2-approximate controllability for 2D NS system. Beyond these main goals we obtain results on boundedness and continuous dependence of trajectories of 2D NS system on degenerate forcing, when the space of forcings is endowed with so called relaxation metric.
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Agrachev, A.A., Sarychev, A.V. Navier–Stokes Equations: Controllability by Means of Low Modes Forcing. J. math. fluid mech. 7, 108–152 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-004-0110-1
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