Control Of Partial Differential Equations: Proceedings Of The Ifip Wg 7.2 Working Conference, Santiago De Compostela, Spain, July 6-9, 1987 (lecture Notes In Control And Information Sciences)

This volume comprises the proceedings of an IFIP conference held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 1987. The conference was devoted to the following topics: state constrained optimal control problems, shape optimization, identification of parameters, stabilisation, controlability, numerical methods and industrial applications. Computational techniques for inverse problems in size structured stochastic population models....Pages 1-10 Identification of free boundaries and non-linearities for elliptic partial differential equations arising from plasma physics....Pages 11-22 Convergence of suboptimal elements in infinite dimensional nonlinear programming problems....Pages 23-34 An introduction to the methods based on uniqueness for exact controllability of distributed systems....Pages 35-46 Stability of wave equations with nonlinear damping in the dirichlet and neumann boundary conditions....Pages 47-64 Duality methods for non qualified distributed control problems....Pages 65-72 Identification of operators in systems governed by evolution equations on Banach space....Pages 73-83 Optimal control of state-constrained unstable systems of elliptic type....Pages 84-91 Optimal control of quasilinear elliptic equations....Pages 92-99 Some results on linear quadratic periodic control without detectability....Pages 100-107 Further developments in the application of Min Max differentiability to shape sensitivity analysis....Pages 108-119 Optimal design in fluid mechanics. The finite element approach....Pages 120-131 On the linearization of nonlinear control systems and exact reachability....Pages 132-143 Invariant imbedding and the reflection of elastic waves....Pages 144-155 Identification of parameters in diffusion convection models : Application to the analysis of blood flow in digital subtraction angiography....Pages 156-167 Heat transfer optimization in industrial systems with multiple steady states....Pages 168-176 Infinite horizon linear-quadratic regulator problems for beams and plates....Pages 177-189 On boundary controllability of viscoelastic systems....Pages 190-201 Remarks on exact controllability and stabilization of a hybrid system in elasticity through boundary damping....Pages 202-207 Un Probleme De Controle avec Contraintes sur L'etat....Pages 208-212 A variational inequality approach to the problem of the design of the optimal covering of an obstacle....Pages 213-224 Some results on optimal control for unilateral problems....Pages 225-235 Shape sensitivity analysis of state constrained optimal control problems for distributed parameter systems....Pages 236-245 Approximation of discrete-time LQR problems for boundary control systems with control delays....Pages 246-254 Shape optimization of structures with pointwise state constraints....Pages 255-264 Some control-theoretic questions for a free boundary problem....Pages 265-276 Differentiation on a lipschitz manifold....Pages 277-283 Sharpregularity theory for second order hyperbolic equations of neumann type....Pages 284-288 Control of folds....Pages 289-296 Controllability and stabilization of two-dimensional elastic vibration with dynamical boundary control....Pages 297-308 Shape derivatives and shape acceleration....Pages 309-318