Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering

✍ Scribed by Viorel Badescu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 584
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 93
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization. The book is organized in three parts: The first part includes a brief presentation of function optimization and variational calculus, while the second part presents a summary of the optimal control theory. Lastly, the third part describes several applications of optimal control theory in solving various thermal engineering problems. These applications are grouped in four sections: heat transfer and thermal energy storage, solar thermal engineering, heat engines and lubrication.Clearly presented and easy-to-use, it is a valuable resource for thermal engineers and thermal-system designers as well as postgraduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Functions Optimization....Pages 11-22
Elements of Variational Calculus....Pages 23-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Generalities Concerning the Optimal Control Problems....Pages 77-88
The Maximum Principle (Pontryagin)....Pages 89-109
The Gradient Method....Pages 111-136
Dynamic Programming (Bellman Method)....Pages 137-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Heat Transfer Processes....Pages 161-187
Heat Exchangers....Pages 189-203
Storage of Thermal Energy and Exergy....Pages 205-229
Heating and Cooling Processes....Pages 231-246
Optimization of Thermal Insulation of Seasonal Water Storage Tanks....Pages 247-255
Optimization of Pin Fin Profiles....Pages 257-281
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Optimization of Solar Energy Collection Systems....Pages 285-316
Flat-Plate Solar Collectors. Optimization of Absorber Geometry....Pages 317-348
Optimal Time-Dependent Operation of Open Loop Solar Collector Systems....Pages 349-371
Optimal Time-Dependent Operation of Closed Loop Solar Collector Systems....Pages 373-410
Optimal Flow Controllers....Pages 411-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Endoreversible Heat Engines....Pages 423-444
Diesel Engines....Pages 445-465
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Optimization of Daniel Cam Engines....Pages 467-512
Photochemical Engines....Pages 513-525
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Optimization of One Dimensional Slider Bearings....Pages 529-581
Back Matter....Pages 583-588

✦ Subjects

Control;Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer;Systems Theory, Control;Thermodynamics