Optimization of Elliptic Systems Theory and Applications /

• Main Authors: Neittaanmaki, Pekka (Author), Tiba, Dan (Author), Sprekels, Jürgen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Partial differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Optimization.; Partial Differential Equations.; Applications of Mathematics.

This monograph provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the optimization of elliptic systems. This area of mathematical research, which has many important application in science and technology, has experienced an impressive development during the last two decades. This monograph aims...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introductory topics
• Existance
• Optimality conditions
• Discretization
• Unknown domains
• Optimization of curved mechanical systems
• Appendix 1: Convex mappings and monotone operators
• Appendix 2: Elliptic equations and variational inequalities
• Appendix 3: Domain convergence
• References.