Stackelberg-Nash exact controllability for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with boundary and distributed controls.

This paper deals with a multi-objective control problem for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation by following a Stackelberg-Nash strategy. We have a distributed control called Leader, and two boundary controls called Followers, each of them has to act over the equation to influence the behavior of the state in a particular way, by reaching or approaching to many targets at once. To be more precise, the Leader wants to drive the solution to a prescribed target at a final time, and the followers have to minimize some given cost functionals, adapting themselves to what the Leader wants. The main difficulty here is that, since the Followers are in the boundary, the problem turns to be equivalent to prove a partial null controllability result for a system of nonlinear fourth-order equations with boundary coupling terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]