Preface

Contributors

Shape Sensitivity Analysis in Hyperbolic Problems with Nonsmooth Domains

John Cagnol

Jean-Paul Zolesio

Unbounded Growth of Total Variations of Snapshots of the 1D Linear Wave Equation Due to the Chaotic Behavior of Iterates of Composite Nonlinear Boundary Reflection Relations

Goong Chen

Tingwen Huang

Jonq Juang

Daowei Ma

Velocity Method and Courant Metric Topologies in Shape Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Michel C. Delfour

Jean-Paul Zolesio

Nonlinear Periodic Oscillations in Suspension Bridges

Zhonghai Ding

Canonical Dual Control for Nonconvex Distributed-Parameter Systems: Theory and Method

David Y. Gao

Carleman Estimate for a Parabolic Equation in a Sobolev Space of Negative Order and Its Applications

O. Yu. Imanuvilov

M. Yamamoto

Bilinear Control for Global Controllability of the Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Superlinear Terms

Alexander Khapalov

A Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition for Optimal Boundary Control of the Dynamic Maxwell System

J. E. Lagnese

Boundary Stabilizibility of a Nonlinear Structural Acoustic Model Including Thermoelastic Effects

Catherine Lebiedzik

On Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Optimal Control Problems for Dynamic Networks of Euler-Bernoulli-and Rayleigh-Beams

Guenter Leugering

Wigand Rathmann

Local Characterizations of Saddle Points and Their Morse Indices

Yongxin Li

Jianxin Zhou

Static Buckling in a Supported Nonlinear Elastic Beam

David L. Russell

Luther W. White

Optimal Control of a Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Rod

Thomas I. Seidman

Stuart S. Antman

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis for Robotic Control

S. Tsui

Optimal Control and Synthesis of Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Systems

Yuncheng You

Forced Oscillation of the Korteweg-De Vries-Burgers Equation and Its Stability