Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems: Nonlinear Phenomena: International Conference in Vorau (Austria), July 18-24, 1993

by Wolfgang Desch (Editor), Franz Kappel (Editor), Karl Kunisch (Editor)

Overview

22 papers on control of nonlinear partial differential equations highlight the area from a broad variety of viewpoints. They comprise theoretical considerations such as optimality conditions, relaxation, or stabilizability theorems, as well as the development and evaluation of new algorithms. A significant part of the volume is devoted to applications in engineering, continuum mechanics and population biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034896665
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Basel
Publication date:	10/24/2012
Series:	International Series of Numerical Mathematics , #118
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

A semigroup formulation of a nonlinear size-structured distributed rate population model.- Damage detection and characterization in smart material structures.- Optimality conditions for non-qualified parabolic control problems.- Convergence of trajectories for a controlled viscous Burgers’ equation.- Optimality conditions for boundary control problems of parabolic type.- Pontryagin’s principle for optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic equations.- Invariance of the Hamiltonian in control problems for semilinear parabolic distributed parameter systems.- Rate distribution modeling for structured heterogeneous populations.- A model for a two-layered plate with interfacial slip.- Numerical solution of a constrained control problem for a phase field model.- Uniform stabilizability of nonlinearly coupled Kirchhoff plate equations.- Boundary temperature control for thermally coupled Navier-Stokes equations.- Adaptive estimation of nonlinear distributed parameter systems.- Decay estimates for the wave equation with internal damping.- On the controllability of the rotation of a flexible arm.- Modeling and controllability of interconnected elastic membranes.- On feedback controls for dynamic networks of strings and beams and their numerical simulation.- Various relaxations in optimal control of distributed parameter systems.- Convergence of an SQP—method for a class of nonlinear parabolic boundary control problems.- Conditional stability in determination of densities of heat sources in a bounded domain.- Boundary stabilization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.- Controllability of the linear system of thermoelasticity: Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions.