Offers a view of research in control and estimation of partial differential equations. This work addresses topics including: control and stability of hyperbolic systems related to elasticity, linear and nonlinear; control and identification of nonlinear parabolic systems; and, exact and approximate controllability and observability.

Proceedings of the Conference on Control Theory for Distributed Parameter Systems, Held at the Chorherrenstift Vorau, Styria, July 11-17, 1982

The research detailed in this monograph was originally motivated by our interest in control problems involving partial and delay differential equations. Our attempts to apply control theory techniques to such prob- lems in several areas of science convinced us that in the need for better and more detailed models of distributed/ continuum processes in biology and mechanics lay a rich, interesting, and challenging class of fundamen- tal questions. These questions, which involve science and mathematics, are typical of those arising in inverse or parameter estimation problems. Our efforts on...

Consisting of 23 refereed contributions, this volume offers a broad and diverse view of current research in control and estimation of partial differential equations. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to - control and stability of hyperbolic systems related to elasticity, linear and nonlinear; - control and identification of nonlinear parabolic systems; - exact and approximate controllability, and observability; - Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming in PDE; and - numerics pertinent to optimal and suboptimal control problems. This volume is primarily geared toward...