Nonlinear and Robust Control of PDE Systems: Methods and Applications to Transport-Reaction Processes

3R23. Nonlinear and Robust Control of PDE Systems: Methods and Applications to Transport-Reaction Processes. - PD Christofides (Dept of Chem Eng, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095-1592). Birkhauser Boston, Cambridge MA. 2001. 248 pp. ISBN 0-8176-4156-4. $69.95.Reviewed by J Chow (Adv Tech Center, Org L9-24, Lockheed Martin, 3251 Hanover St, Palo Alto CA 94304-1191).The author has written a book that seeks to present practical, general nonlinear, and robust control methods for hyperbolic and parabolic PDE systems, and to illustrate their application to transport-reaction processes that are found in the chemical industry. There is also an attempt to compare their effectiveness with respect to traditional control…