Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2014
This article aims at studying the controllability of a simplified fluid structureinteraction model derived and developed in [C. Conca, J. Planchard and M. Vanninathan,RAM: Res. Appl. Math. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester (1995);J.-P. Raymond and M. Vanninathan, ESAIM: COCV 11 (2005)180–203; M. Tucsnak and M. Vanninathan, Systems Control Lett. 58(2009) 547–552]. This interaction is modeled by a wave equation surrounding aharmonic oscillator. Our main result states that, in the radially symmetric case, thissystem can be controlled from the outer boundary. This improves previous results [J.-P.Raymond and M. Vanninathan, ESAIM: COCV 11 (2005) 180–203;M. Tucsnak and M. Vanninathan, Systems Control Lett. 58(2009) 547–552]. Our proof is based on a spherical harmonic decomposition of thesolution and the so-called lateral propagation of the energy for 1d waves.