Optimal Design and Control

1. Front Matter

   Pages ii-xii

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2. Multilevel Algorithms for Nonlinear Optmization

   • Natalia Alexandrov, J. E. Dennis Jr.

   Pages 1-22

3. Shape Optimization in One Shot

   • Eyal Arian, Shlomo Ta’asan

   Pages 23-40

4. Computational Aspects of Differential Dynamic Programming and Nonlinear Programming Techniques for Optimal Control

   • Jasbir S. Arora, Dale A. Holtz, Narendra N. Kota

   Pages 41-54

5. Optimal Control of Metal Forging

   • Jordan M. Berg, Richard J. Adams, James C. Malas III, Siva S. Banda

   Pages 55-80

6. The Application of Sparse Least Squares in Aerospace Design Problems

   • John T. Betts

   Pages 81-96

7. Algorithms for Flow Control and Optimization

   • J. Borggaard, J. Burkardt, J. Burns, E. Cliff, M. Gunzburger, H. Kim et al.

   Pages 97-116

8. A Generalized Reduced Gradient Algorithm for Large-scale Trajectory Optimization Problems

   • Kathryn E. Brenan, Wayne P. Hallman

   Pages 117-132

9. The Optimal Design Problem of Céa and Malanowski Revisited

   • Michel C. Delfour, Jean-Paul Zolésio

   Pages 133-150

10. Uniformly Stable Spline Approximations for Scalar Delay Problems

    • Richard H. Fabiano

    Pages 151-157

11. Implicit Filtering and Optimal Design Problems

    • P. Gilmore, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, G. A. Williams

    Pages 159-176

12. Generating Conjugate Directions Using Limited Second Derivatives

    • Andreas Griewank, Manfred Fruth

    Pages 177-188

13. Contact Shape Optimization

    • Jaroslav Haslinger

    Pages 189-198

14. Optimal Control of Thermally Coupled Navier Stokes Equations

    • Kazufumi Ito, Jeffrey S. Scroggs, Hien T. Tran

    Pages 199-214

15. Optimization Methods in the Process Control of Industrial Furnaces

    • H. Jäger, E. Sachs, H. Heidemüller, F. Maschler, H. Klammer, G. Woelk

    Pages 215-228

16. Maximal Decay Rates and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions in Nonlinear Elastic Structures

    • I. Lasiecka, W. Heyman

    Pages 229-240

17. Preparation of Advanced CFD Codes for use in Sensitivity Analyses and Multidisiplinary Design Optimization

    • Perry A. Newman

    Pages 241-274

18. An Introduction to the Formation Theory of Active Materials

    • David L. Russell

    Pages 275-286

19. Back Matter

    Pages 287-288

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This volume is the proceedings of the Workshop on Optimal Design and Control that was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 8-9, 1994. The workshop was spon­ sored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Air Force Center for Optimal Design and Control (CODAC) at Virginia Tech. The workshop was a gathering of engineers and mathematicians actively in­ volved in innovative research in control and optimization, with emphasis placed on problems governed by partial differential equations. The interdisciplinary nature of the workshop and the wide range of subdisciplines represented by the partici­ pants enabled an exchange of valuable information and also led to significant dis­ cussions about multidisciplinary optimization issues. One of the goals of the work­ shop was to include laboratory, industrial, and academic researchers so that anal­ yses, algorithms, implementations, and applications could all be well-represented in the talks; this interdisciplinary nature is reflected in these proceedings. An overriding impression that can be gleaned from the papers in this volume is the complexity of problems addressed by not only those authors engaged in appli­ cations, but also by those engaged in algorithmic development and even mathemat­ ical analyses. Thus, in many instances, systematic approaches using fully nonlin­ ear constraint equations are routinely used to solve control and optimization prob­ lems, in some cases replacing ad-hoc or empirically based procedures.

• Design & Control
• Mathematics
• Optimization Algorithms
• algorithms
• linear optimization
• nonlinear optimization
• optimal control
• optimization

"Those interested in multidisciplinary or cross-disciplinary design and control problems will find the book a unique source of ideas."

--Rubriken

• Air Force Center for Optimal Design and Control Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

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