Optimal Control for Chemical Engineers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Electrical engineering; Industrial chemistry; Materials science
Description: This self-contained book gives a detailed treatment of optimal control theory that enables readers to formulate and solve optimal control problems. With a strong emphasis on problem solving, it provides all the necessary mathematical analyses and derivations of important results, including multiplier theorems and Pontryagin's principle. The text presents various examples and basic concepts of optimal control and describes important numerical methods and computational algorithms for solving a wide range of optimal control problems, including periodic processes.
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