Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. State Estimation and Tracking Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

   • H. T. Banks, S. C. Beeler, H. T. Tran

   Pages 1-24

3. A well-posedness Result for a Shear Wave Propagation Model

   • H. T. Banks, H. Tran, S. Wynne

   Pages 25-40

4. Mesh Adaptation for Parameter Identification Problems

   • Roland Becker, Boris Vexler

   Pages 41-56

5. A SQP-Augmented Lagrangian Method for Optimal Control of Semilinear Elliptic Variational Inequalities

   • M. Bergounioux, M. Haddou

   Pages 57-72

6. On the Long Time Behavior of Approximating Dynamical Systems

   • John A. Burns, John R. Singler

   Pages 73-86

7. Error Estimates in Space and Time for Tracking-type Control of the Instationary Stokes System

   • Klaus Deckelnick, Michael Hinze

   Pages 87-103

8. Modeling and Control of Asymptotic Shells

   • Michel C. Delfour

   Pages 105-120

9. Unbounded Observers and Riccati Operators in Nonreflexive Spaces

   • W. Desch, E. Fasanga, J. Milota

   Pages 121-136

10. Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation Based Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis

    • Qiang Du, Max D. Gunzburger

    Pages 137-150

11. Time and Norm Optimal Controls for Linear Parabolic Equations: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

    • Hector O. Fattorini

    Pages 151-168

12. Feedback Stabilization for the 2D Oseen Equations:s Additional Remarks

    • Andrei V. Fursikov

    Pages 169-187

13. Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle via Singular Perturbations

    • Goetz Grammel

    Pages 189-201

14. Level Set Methods for Variational Problems and Applications

    • Kazufumi Ito

    Pages 203-217

15. Boundary Observability of Compactly Perturbed Systems

    • Vilmos Komornik, Paola Loreti

    Pages 219-230

16. Some Shape Optimal Control Computations for Navier-Stokes Flows

    • S. Manservisi

    Pages 231-248

17. Model Development for the Positioning Mechanisms in an Atomic Force Microscope

    • Ralph C. Smith, Murti V. Salapaka

    Pages 249-269

18. Back Matter

    Pages 270-270

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Consisting of 16 refereed original contributions, this volume presents a diversified collection of recent results in control of distributed parameter systems. Topics addressed include - optimal control in fluid mechanics - numerical methods for optimal control of partial differential equations - modeling and control of shells - level set methods - mesh adaptation for parameter estimation problems - shape optimization Advanced graduate students and researchers will find the book an excellent guide to the forefront of control and estimation of distributed parameter systems.

• Dynamical systems
• Excel
• Optimal control
• maximum principle
• partial differential equation

• Institut für Mathematik, Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

  W. Desch, F. Kappel, K. Kunisch

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