Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems: International Conference in Maria Trost (Austria), July 15-21, 2001 / Edition 1

by Wolfgang Desch, Franz Kappel, Karl Kunisch

Overview

Consisting of 16 refereed original contributions, this volume presents a diversified collection of recent results in control of distributed parameter systems. Topics addressed include - optimal control in fluid mechanics - numerical methods for optimal control of partial differential equations - modeling and control of shells - level set methods - mesh adaptation for parameter estimation problems - shape optimization Advanced graduate students and researchers will find the book an excellent guide to the forefront of control and estimation of distributed parameter systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764370046
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Basel
Publication date:	01/17/2003
Series:	International Series of Numerical Mathematics , #143
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

State Estimation and Tracking Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.- A Well-posedness Result for a Shear Wave Propagation Model.- Mesh Adaptation for Parameter Identification Problems.- A SQP-Augmented Lagrangian Method for Optimal Control of Semilinear Elliptic Variational Inequalities.- On the Long Time Behavior of Approximating Dynamical Systems.- Error Estimates in Space and Time for Tracking-type Control of the Instationary Stokes System.- Modeling and Control of Asymptotic Shells.- Unbounded Observers and Riccati Operators in Nonreflexive Spaces.- Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation Based Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis.- Time and Norm Optimal Controls for Linear Parabolic Equations: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.- Feedback Stabilization for the 2D Oseen Equations: Additional Remarks.- Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle via Singular Perturbations.- Level Set Methods for Variational Problems and Applications.- Boundary Observability of Compactly Perturbed Systems.- Some Shape Optimal Control Computations for Navier-Stokes Flows.- Model Development for the Positioning Mechanisms in an Atomic Force Microscope.