Control of Wave and Beam PDEs is a concise, self-contained introduction to Riesz bases in Hilbert space and their applications to control systems described by p

The text's broad coverage includes parabolic PDEs; hyperbolic PDEs of first and second order; fluid, thermal, and structural systems; delay systems; PDEs with t

New adaptive and event-triggered control designs with concrete applications in undersea construction, offshore drilling, and cable elevators Control application

A clear and concise introduction to backstepping, an elegant new approach to boundary control of partial differential equations (PDEs).

Concentrates on systems of hyperbolic and parabolic coupled PDEs that are nonlinear, solve three key problems.