Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering

• Main Author: Badescu, Viorel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 93
• Subjects: Engineering.; System theory.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Control engineering.; Control.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Systems Theory, Control.

This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization. The book is organized in three parts: The f...