This is a book on optimal control problems (OCPs) for partial differential equations (PDEs) that evolved from a series of courses taught by the authors in the l

Optimal control theory is concerned with finding control functions that minimize cost functions for systems described by differential equations. The methods hav

1. The development of a theory of optimal control (deterministic) requires the following initial data: (i) a control u belonging to some set ilIi ad (the set of

This book highlights new developments in the wide and growing field of partial differential equations (PDE)-constrained optimization. Optimization problems wher

Originally published in 2000, this is the first volume of a comprehensive two-volume treatment of quadratic optimal control theory for partial differential equa