Applied optimal control theory of distributed systems (Q1899871)

The given book is a substantially revised and update version of the author's earlier work ``Optimal control in problems of mathematical physics'', published in Russian in 1975. This monograph gives a modern approach to optimal control problems with distributed parameters, described by elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic equations and arising in mathematical physics. The author gives discussions on the existence of optimal controls and optimality conditions. Further topics we can see from the table of contents: 1. Introduction, 2. The Mayer-Bolza problem for several independent variables: Necessary conditions for a minimum, 3. Optimal distribution of the resistivity of the working medium in the channel of a magnetohydrodynamic generator, 4. Relaxation of optimization problems with equations containing the operator \(\nabla\cdot D\cdot \nabla\): An application to the problem of elastic torsion, 5. Relaxation of some problems in the optimal design of plates, 6. Optimal control of systems described by equations of hyperbolic type, 7. Parabolic and other evolution optimization problems, 8. Bellman's method in variational problems with partial derivatives.