Karl Kunisch

Günter Leugering

Fredi Tröltzsch

Jürgen Sprekels

Contains contributions originating from the 'Conference on Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations', held at the 'Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach' in March 2008. This work covers a range of topics such as controllability, optimality systems, model-reduction techniques, and fluid-structure interactions.

Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations

Franz Kappel

Wolfgang Desch

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.

International Conference in Vorau (Austria), July 18–24, 1993

Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems: Nonlinear Phenomena

Kazufumi Ito

Analyses Lagrange multiplier theory and demonstrates its impact on the development of numerical algorithms for variational problems in function spaces.

Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problems and Applications

Gertrud Desch

F. Kappel

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.

Nonlinear Phenomena : International Conference in Vorau (Austria), July 18-24, 1993

Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

Dante Kalise

Zhiping Rao

Optimal feedback control arises in different areas such as aerospace engineering, chemical processing, resource economics, etc. In this context, the application of dynamic programming techniques leads to the solution of fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. This book presents the state of the art in the numerical approximation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, including post-processing of Galerkin methods, high-order methods, boundary treatment in semi-Lagrangian schemes, reduced basis methods, comparison principles for viscosity solutions, max-plus methods, and the numerical approximation of Monge-Ampère equations. This book also features applications in the simulation of adaptive controllers and the control of nonlinear delay differential equations. Contents From a monotone probabilistic scheme to a probabilistic max-plus algorithm for solving Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations Improving policies for Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations by postprocessing Viability approach to simulation of an adaptive controller Galerkin approximations for the optimal control of nonlinear delay differential equations Efficient higher order time discretization schemes for Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations based on diagonally implicit symplectic Runge–Kutta methods Numerical solution of the simple Monge–Ampere equation with nonconvex Dirichlet data on nonconvex domains On the notion of boundary conditions in comparison principles for viscosity solutions Boundary mesh refinement for semi-Lagrangian schemes A reduced basis method for the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation within the European Union Emission Trading Scheme

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