Control of partial differential equations and applications : proceedings of the IFIP TC7/WG- 7.2 international conference, Laredo, Spain

Based on the International Federation for Information Processing TC7/WG-7.2 Conference, held recently in Laredo, Spain, this invaluable reference provides the latest theoretical advances as well as the most recent results on numerical methods and applications of control for partial differential equations. Containing key literature citations and some 1350 equations, Control of Partial Differential Equations and Applications is an incomparable resource for pure and applied mathematicians, mathematical analysts, geometers, control and electrical and electronics engineers and scientists, physicists, computer scientists, and graduate-level students in these disciplines.

Based on the International Federation for Information Processing TC7/WG-7.2 Conference, held in Laredo, Spain, this work covers theoretical advances as well as results on control problems and applications for partial differential equations. It examines the controllability and stabilization of distributed sytems, optimality conditions, shape optimization and numerical methods.

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Covering the broad areas of controllability and stabilization, optimality conditions, numerical analytic methods, and applications to industrial problems, the 26 papers hone in on such specific aspects as drag differentiability for Lipschitz domains, the Neumann boundary condition as a fictitious domain approach to shaping optimization, the time-minimal control of rotating beams, stabilization and periodic solutions of a hybrid system arising in the control of noise, and applications of exact controllability to some inverse problems for the wave equations. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

We consider the problem of minimizing a function submitted to inequality constraints to be applied to engineering design, when smooth nonlinear functions are involved, using a general approach for nonlinear constrained optimization given by J. Herskovits.