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Optimal Flow Controllers

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Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 93))

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The main difficulty that arises in practice is that the optimal control is not expressed as a function of the measurable state variables of the system. A practical way of implementing the strategy of optimal flow control is discussed in this chapter.

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Badescu, V. (2017). Optimal Flow Controllers. In: Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 93. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52968-4_18

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