Applied Optimal Control Theory of Distributed Systems

1. Introduction -- 2. The Mayer-Bolza Problem for Several Independent Variables: Necessary Conditions for a Minimum -- 3. Optimal Distribution of the Resistivity of the Working Medium in the Channel of a Magnetohydrodynamic Generator -- 4. Relaxation of Optimization Problems with Equations Containing the Operator ? · ? · ?: An Application to the Problem of Elastic Torsion -- 5. Relaxation of Some Problems in the Optimal Design of Plates -- 6. Optimal Control of Systems Described by Equations of Hyperbolic Type -- 7. Parabolic and Other Evolution Optimization Problems -- 8. Bellman’s Method in Variational Problems with Partial Derivatives -- Appendix A: Calculations and Comments -- Appendix B: Remarks and Guide to the Literature -- References.