Control of Partial Differential Equations and Applications (Paperback)

An algorithm of interior point for multidisciplinary optimal design; on drag differentiability for Lipschitz domains; some examples of optimality conditions for convex control problems with general constraints; Cauchy problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and Dirichlet boundary control problems of parabolic type; fictitious domain approach used in shape optimization - Neumann boundary condition; modelling and control of thin/shallow shells; obstruction and some approximate controllability results for the Burgers equation and related problems; some controllability problems for the Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems; on some weighting methods to improve output least squares estimation; boundary control of a Schrodinger equation with nonconstant principal part; augmented Lagrangian formulation of nonsmooth convex optimization in Hilbert spaces; analysis of the control of wave generators in a canal; boundary stabilization of isotropic elasticity systems; time-minimal control of rotating beams; a singular control approach to highly damped second-order abstract equations and applications; uniform stabilization of a shallow spherical shell with boundary dissipation; SQP interior point methods for parabolic control problems; reverberation analysis and control of networks of elastic strings; remarks on the control of sensitive distributed systems; stabilization and periodic solutions of a hybrid system arising in the control of noise; differentiability of projection and applications; applications of exact controllability to some inverse problems for the wave equations; the approximation of the optimal control of vibrations; a static formation theory for active elastic materials; optimal control of free boundaries; a stability theorem for linear-quadratic parabolic control problems.