Optimal control applications in electric power systems (Q1107478)

The book represents an excellent guide for the application of optimal control techniques to electric power systems, and is addressed to numerous specialists in engineering and in applied mathematics. After a short and very clear chapter devoted to concepts of optimal control theory (variational calculus, Pontrjagin's principle and functional analytic optimization), the authors present some of the main problems of electric power systems (dynamic load flow, hydrothermal- nuclear systems, tie-line flow in interconnected systems and turboalternators) in terms of the optimal control. The mathematical models proposed in the book, the computational approaches used by the authors, the solved and discussed examples and the directions for further developments are of greatest interest for both practitioners and theoretical researchers.