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Extremum Seeking Through Delays and PDEs

Author : Tiago Roux Oliveira
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611977355
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Extremum Seeking Through Delays and PDEs by : Tiago Roux Oliveira

Download or read book Extremum Seeking Through Delays and PDEs written by Tiago Roux Oliveira and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremum Seeking through Delays and PDEs, the first book on the topic, expands the scope of applicability of the extremum seeking method, from static and finite-dimensional systems to infinite-dimensional systems. Readers will find numerous algorithms for model-free real-time optimization are developed and their convergence guaranteed, extensions from single-player optimization to noncooperative games, under delays and PDEs, are provided, the delays and PDEs are compensated in the control designs using the PDE backstepping approach, and stability is ensured using infinite-dimensional versions of averaging theory, and accessible and powerful tools for analysis. This book is intended for control engineers in all disciplines (electrical, mechanical, aerospace, chemical), mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and economists. It is appropriate for graduate students, researchers, and industrial users.

Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems

Author : Miroslav Krstic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0817648771
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems by : Miroslav Krstic

Download or read book Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems written by Miroslav Krstic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on new opportunities in predictor feedback, this book significantly broadens the set of techniques available to a mathematician or engineer working on delay systems. It is a collection of tools and techniques that make predictor feedback ideas applicable to nonlinear systems, systems modeled by PDEs, systems with highly uncertain or completely unknown input/output delays, and systems whose actuator or sensor dynamics are modeled by more general hyperbolic or parabolic PDEs, rather than by pure delay. Replete with examples, Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems is an excellent reference guide for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in mathematics, systems control, as well as chemical, mechanical, electrical, computer, aerospace, and civil/structural engineering. Parts of the book may be used in graduate courses on general distributed parameter systems, linear delay systems, PDEs, nonlinear control, state estimator and observers, adaptive control, robust control, or linear time-varying systems.

Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control

Author : Kartik B. Ariyur
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471468592
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Book Synopsis Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control by : Kartik B. Ariyur

Download or read book Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control written by Kartik B. Ariyur and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-close look at the theory behind and application of extremum seeking Originally developed as a method of adaptive control for hard-to-model systems, extremum seeking solves some of the same problems as today's neural network techniques, but in a more rigorous and practical way. Following the resurgence in popularity of extremum-seeking control in aerospace and automotive engineering, Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control presents the theoretical foundations and selected applications of this method of real-time optimization. Written by authorities in the field and pioneers in adaptive nonlinear control systems, this book presents both significant theoretic value and important practical potential. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control: * Develops optimization theory from the points of dynamic feedback and adaptation * Builds a solid bridge between the classical optimization theory and modern feedback and adaptation techniques * Provides a collection of useful tools for problems in this complex area * Presents numerous applications of this powerful methodology * Demonstrates the immense potential of this methodology for future theory development and applications Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control is an important resource for both students and professionals in all areas of engineering-electrical, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, biomedical-and is also a valuable reference for practicing control engineers.

Nonlinear Control Under Nonconstant Delays

Author : Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611973171
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Nonlinear Control Under Nonconstant Delays by : Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Download or read book Nonlinear Control Under Nonconstant Delays written by Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have developed a methodology for control of nonlinear systems in the presence of long delays, with large and rapid variation in the actuation or sensing path, or in the presence of long delays affecting the internal state of a system. In addition to control synthesis, they introduce tools to quantify the performance and the robustness properties of the designs provided in the book. The book is based on the concept of predictor feedback and infinite-dimensional backstepping transformation for linear systems and the authors guide the reader from the basic ideas of the concept?with constant delays only on the input?all the way through to nonlinear systems with state-dependent delays on the input as well as on system states. Readers will find the book useful because the authors provide elegant and systematic treatments of long-standing problems in delay systems, such as systems with state-dependent delays that arise in many applications. In addition, the authors give all control designs by explicit formulae, making the book especially useful for engineers who have faced delay-related challenges and are concerned with actual implementations and they accompany all control designs with Lyapunov-based analysis for establishing stability and performance guarantees.

Introduction to Time-Delay Systems

Author : Emilia Fridman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319093932
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to Time-Delay Systems by : Emilia Fridman

Download or read book Introduction to Time-Delay Systems written by Emilia Fridman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the 21st century can be characterized as the” time-delay boom” leading to numerous important results. The purpose of this book is two-fold, to familiarize the non-expert reader with time-delay systems and to provide a systematic treatment of modern ideas and techniques for experts. This book is based on the course ”Introduction to time-delay systems” for graduate students in Engineering and Applied Mathematics that the author taught in Tel Aviv University in 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic years. The sufficient background to follow most of the material are the undergraduate courses in mathematics and an introduction to control. The book leads the reader from some basic classical results on time-delay systems to recent developments on Lyapunov-based analysis and design with applications to the hot topics of sampled-data and network-based control. The objective is to provide useful tools that will allow the reader not only to apply the existing methods, but also to develop new ones. It should be of interest for researchers working in the field, for graduate students in engineering and applied mathematics, and for practicing engineers. It may also be used as a textbook for a graduate course on time-delay systems.

Boundary Control of PDEs

Author : Miroslav Krstic
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 0898718600
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Boundary Control of PDEs by : Miroslav Krstic

Download or read book Boundary Control of PDEs written by Miroslav Krstic and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text's broad coverage includes parabolic PDEs; hyperbolic PDEs of first and second order; fluid, thermal, and structural systems; delay systems; PDEs with third and fourth derivatives in space (including variants of linearized Ginzburg-Landau, Schrodinger, Kuramoto-Sivashinsky, KdV, beam, and Navier-Stokes equations); real-valued as well as complex-valued PDEs; stabilization as well as motion planning and trajectory tracking for PDEs; and elements of adaptive control for PDEs and control of nonlinear PDEs.

Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping

Author : Huan Yu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031193466
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping by : Huan Yu

Download or read book Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping written by Huan Yu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the design of controllers that suppress oscillations and instabilities in congested traffic flow using PDE backstepping methods. The first part of the text is concerned with basic backstepping control of freeway traffic using the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) second-order PDE model. It begins by illustrating a basic control problem – suppressing traffic with stop-and-go oscillations downstream of ramp metering – before turning to the more challenging case for traffic upstream of ramp metering. The authors demonstrate how to design state observers for the purpose of stabilization using output-feedback control. Experimental traffic data are then used to calibrate the ARZ model and validate the boundary observer design. Because large uncertainties may arise in traffic models, adaptive control and reinforcement learning methods are also explored in detail. Part II then extends the conventional ARZ model utilized until this point in order to address more complex traffic conditions: multi-lane traffic, multi-class traffic, networks of freeway segments, and driver use of routing apps. The final chapters demonstrate the use of the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) first-order PDE model to regulate congestion in traffic flows and to optimize flow through a bottleneck. In order to make the text self-contained, an introduction to the PDE backstepping method for systems of coupled first-order hyperbolic PDEs is included. Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping is ideal for control theorists working on control of systems modeled by PDEs and for traffic engineers and applied scientists working on unsteady traffic flows. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers interested in boundary control of coupled systems of first-order hyperbolic PDEs.

Input-to-State Stability for PDEs

Author : Iasson Karafyllis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319910116
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Input-to-State Stability for PDEs by : Iasson Karafyllis

Download or read book Input-to-State Stability for PDEs written by Iasson Karafyllis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays the foundation for the study of input-to-state stability (ISS) of partial differential equations (PDEs) predominantly of two classes—parabolic and hyperbolic. This foundation consists of new PDE-specific tools. In addition to developing ISS theorems, equipped with gain estimates with respect to external disturbances, the authors develop small-gain stability theorems for systems involving PDEs. A variety of system combinations are considered: PDEs (of either class) with static maps; PDEs (again, of either class) with ODEs; PDEs of the same class (parabolic with parabolic and hyperbolic with hyperbolic); and feedback loops of PDEs of different classes (parabolic with hyperbolic). In addition to stability results (including ISS), the text develops existence and uniqueness theory for all systems that are considered. Many of these results answer for the first time the existence and uniqueness problems for many problems that have dominated the PDE control literature of the last two decades, including—for PDEs that include non-local terms—backstepping control designs which result in non-local boundary conditions. Input-to-State Stability for PDEs will interest applied mathematicians and control specialists researching PDEs either as graduate students or full-time academics. It also contains a large number of applications that are at the core of many scientific disciplines and so will be of importance for researchers in physics, engineering, biology, social systems and others.

Adaptive Control of Hyperbolic PDEs

Author : Henrik Anfinsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030058794
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptive Control of Hyperbolic PDEs by : Henrik Anfinsen

Download or read book Adaptive Control of Hyperbolic PDEs written by Henrik Anfinsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive Control of Linear Hyperbolic PDEs provides a comprehensive treatment of adaptive control of linear hyperbolic systems, using the backstepping method. It develops adaptive control strategies for different combinations of measurements and actuators, as well as for a range of different combinations of parameter uncertainty. The book treats boundary control of systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain parameters. The authors develop designs for single equations, as well as any number of coupled equations. The designs are accompanied by mathematical proofs, which allow the reader to gain insight into the technical challenges associated with adaptive control of hyperbolic PDEs, and to get an overview of problems that are still open for further research. Although stabilization of unstable systems by boundary control and boundary sensing are the particular focus, state-feedback designs are also presented. The book also includes simulation examples with implementational details and graphical displays, to give readers an insight into the performance of the proposed control algorithms, as well as the computational details involved. A library of MATLAB® code supplies ready-to-use implementations of the control and estimation algorithms developed in the book, allowing readers to tailor controllers for cases of their particular interest with little effort. These implementations can be used for many different applications, including pipe flows, traffic flow, electrical power lines, and more. Adaptive Control of Linear Hyperbolic PDEs is of value to researchers and practitioners in applied mathematics, engineering and physics; it contains a rich set of adaptive control designs, including mathematical proofs and simulation demonstrations. The book is also of interest to students looking to expand their knowledge of hyperbolic PDEs.

Falling Liquid Films

Author : S. Kalliadasis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848823673
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Falling Liquid Films written by S. Kalliadasis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling Liquid Films gives a detailed review of state-of-the-art theoretical, analytical and numerical methodologies, for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the surface of a film falling down a planar inclined substrate. This prototype is an open-flow hydrodynamic instability, that represents an excellent paradigm for the study of complexity in active nonlinear media with energy supply, dissipation and dispersion. It will also be of use for a more general understanding of specific events characterizing the transition to spatio-temporal chaos and weak/dissipative turbulence. Particular emphasis is given to low-dimensional approximations for such flows through a hierarchy of modeling approaches, including equations of the boundary-layer type, averaged formulations based on weighted residuals approaches and long-wave expansions. Whenever possible the link between theory and experiment is illustrated, and, as a further bridge between the two, the development of order-of-magnitude estimates and scaling arguments is used to facilitate the understanding of basic, underlying physics. This monograph will appeal to advanced graduate students in applied mathematics, science or engineering undertaking research on interfacial fluid mechanics or studying fluid mechanics as part of their program. It will also be of use to researchers working on both applied, fundamental theoretical and experimental aspects of thin film flows, as well as engineers and technologists dealing with processes involving isothermal or heated films. This monograph is largely self-contained and no background on interfacial fluid mechanics is assumed.

Analytic Semigroups and Optimal Regularity in Parabolic Problems

Author : Alessandra Lunardi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3034805578
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Analytic Semigroups and Optimal Regularity in Parabolic Problems by : Alessandra Lunardi

Download or read book Analytic Semigroups and Optimal Regularity in Parabolic Problems written by Alessandra Lunardi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the abstract methods of analytic semigroups and evolution equations in Banach spaces can be fruitfully applied to the study of parabolic problems. Particular attention is paid to optimal regularity results in linear equations. Furthermore, these results are used to study several other problems, especially fully nonlinear ones. Owing to the new unified approach chosen, known theorems are presented from a novel perspective and new results are derived. The book is self-contained. It is addressed to PhD students and researchers interested in abstract evolution equations and in parabolic partial differential equations and systems. It gives a comprehensive overview on the present state of the art in the field, teaching at the same time how to exploit its basic techniques. - - - This very interesting book provides a systematic treatment of the basic theory of analytic semigroups and abstract parabolic equations in general Banach spaces, and how this theory may be used in the study of parabolic partial differential equations; it takes into account the developments of the theory during the last fifteen years. (...) For instance, optimal regularity results are a typical feature of abstract parabolic equations; they are comprehensively studied in this book, and yield new and old regularity results for parabolic partial differential equations and systems. (Mathematical Reviews) Motivated by applications to fully nonlinear problems the approach is focused on classical solutions with continuous or Hölder continuous derivatives. (Zentralblatt MATH)

Dynamical Modelling & Estimation in Wastewater Treatment Processes

Author : D. Dochain
Publisher : IWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781900222501
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamical Modelling & Estimation in Wastewater Treatment Processes by : D. Dochain

Download or read book Dynamical Modelling & Estimation in Wastewater Treatment Processes written by D. Dochain and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental quality is becoming an increasing concern in our society. In that context, waste and wastewater treatment, and more specifically biological wastewater treatment processes play an important role. In this book, we concentrate on the mathematical modelling of these processes. The main purpose is to provide the increasing number of professionals who are using models to design, optimise and control wastewater treatment processes with the necessary background for their activities of model building, selection and calibration. The book deals specifically with dynamic models because they allow us to describe the behaviour of treatment plants under the highly dynamic conditions that we want them to operate (e.g. Sequencing Batch Reactors) or we have to operate them (e.g. storm conditions, spills). Further extension is provided to new reactor systems for which partial differential equation descriptions are necessary to account for their distributed parameter nature (e.g. settlers, fixed bed reactors). The model building exercise is introduced as a step-wise activity that, in this book, starts from mass balancing principles. In many cases, different hypotheses and their corresponding models can be proposed for a particular process. It is therefore essential to be able to select from these candidate models in an objective manner. To this end, structure characterisation methods are introduced. Important sections of the book deal with the collection of high quality data using optimal experimental design, parameter estimation techniques for calibration and the on-line use of models in state and parameter estimators. Contents Dynamical Modelling Dynamical Mass Balance Model Building and Analysis Structure Characterisation (SC) Structural Identifiability Practical Identifiability and Optimal Experiment Design for Parameter Estimation (OED/PE) Estimation of Model Parameters Recursive State and Parameter Estimation Glossary Nomenclature

An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave

Author : Knut-Andreas Lie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492436
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave by : Knut-Andreas Lie

Download or read book An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave written by Knut-Andreas Lie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents numerical methods for reservoir simulation, with efficient implementation and examples using widely-used online open-source code, for researchers, professionals and advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Instabilities, Chaos and Turbulence

Author : Paul Manneville
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848163924
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Instabilities, Chaos and Turbulence written by Paul Manneville and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (2nd edition) is a self-contained introduction to a wide body of knowledge on nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Manneville emphasises the understanding of basic concepts and the nontrivial character of nonlinear response, contrasting it with the intuitively simple linear response. He explains the theoretical framework using pedagogical examples from fluid dynamics, though prior knowledge of this field is not required. Heuristic arguments and worked examples replace most esoteric technicalities. Only basic understanding of mathematics and physics is required, at the level of what is currently known after one or two years of undergraduate training: elementary calculus, basic notions of linear algebra and ordinary differential calculus, and a few fundamental physical equations (specific complements are provided when necessary). Methods presented are of fully general use, which opens up ample windows on topics of contemporary interest. These include complex dynamical processes such as patterning, chaos control, mixing, and even the Earth's climate. Numerical simulations are proposed as a means to obtain deeper understanding of the intricacies induced by nonlinearities in our everyday environment, with hints on adapted modelling strategies and their implementation.

500 Examples and Problems of Applied Differential Equations

Author : Ravi P. Agarwal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030263843
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis 500 Examples and Problems of Applied Differential Equations by : Ravi P. Agarwal

Download or read book 500 Examples and Problems of Applied Differential Equations written by Ravi P. Agarwal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights an unprecedented number of real-life applications of differential equations together with the underlying theory and techniques. The problems and examples presented here touch on key topics in the discipline, including first order (linear and nonlinear) differential equations, second (and higher) order differential equations, first order differential systems, the Runge–Kutta method, and nonlinear boundary value problems. Applications include growth of bacterial colonies, commodity prices, suspension bridges, spreading rumors, modeling the shape of a tsunami, planetary motion, quantum mechanics, circulation of blood in blood vessels, price-demand-supply relations, predator-prey relations, and many more. Upper undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering will find this volume particularly useful, both for independent study and as supplementary reading. While many problems can be solved at the undergraduate level, a number of challenging real-life applications have also been included as a way to motivate further research in this vast and fascinating field.

Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services

Author : Nejat Ince
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387739084
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services by : Nejat Ince

Download or read book Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services written by Nejat Ince and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of papers presented at a symposium organized under the aegis of COST Telecommunications Action 285. COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) is a framework for scientific and technical cooperation, allowing the coordination of national research on a European level. Action 285 sought to enhance existing tools and develop new modeling and simulation tools.

Process Modelling and Simulation

Author : César de Prada
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039214551
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Process Modelling and Simulation written by César de Prada and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since process models are nowadays ubiquitous in many applications, the challenges and alternatives related to their development, validation, and efficient use have become more apparent. In addition, the massive amounts of both offline and online data available today open the door for new applications and solutions. However, transforming data into useful models and information in the context of the process industry or of bio-systems requires specific approaches and considerations such as new modelling methodologies incorporating the complex, stochastic, hybrid and distributed nature of many processes in particular. The same can be said about the tools and software environments used to describe, code, and solve such models for their further exploitation. Going well beyond mere simulation tools, these advanced tools offer a software suite built around the models, facilitating tasks such as experiment design, parameter estimation, model initialization, validation, analysis, size reduction, discretization, optimization, distributed computation, co-simulation, etc. This Special Issue collects novel developments in these topics in order to address the challenges brought by the use of models in their different facets, and to reflect state of the art developments in methods, tools and industrial applications.