Variational Calculus, Optimal Control and Applications
Subtitle: International Conference in Honour of L. Bittner and R. Klötzler, Trassenheide, Germany, September ... Series of Numerical Mathematics)
Contributors: Leonhard Bittner (Editor); Roland Bulirsch (Editor); Knut Heier (Editor); Werner Schmidt (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: May 4, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9783764359065
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Automatic control engineering; Mathematics for scientists & engineers; Numerical analysis; Chaos Theory (Mathematics); Calculus Of Variations; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Mechanical; Calculus; General; Mathematics / General; flight dynamics; fluid dynamics; Applied
First sentence: All theorems assuring the existence of an optimal solution for a dynamical control problem (cf. [8]) require some kind of convexity for the sets of allowed velocities (for the hodographs) which, as a rule, is not satisfied.