US-Austria Cooperative Research On Stabilization and Controlof Distributed Parameter Systems

该奖项支持弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学(VPI)的John A.Burns和Robert Wheeler与奥地利格拉茨大学数学研究所的Wolfgang Desch和其他人在工程系统研究方面进行合作。他们的合作集中在两个领域：粘弹性系统的稳定性，以及在近似下保持系统的性质。他们的共同努力得益于这些问题不同方面的专门知识。VPI小组在应用、建模和计算(空气动力学、大型空间结构、粘弹性和大规模计算)方面拥有丰富的经验，并在复杂分析和经典分析方面拥有强大的背景。格拉茨的研究人员在半群理论、控制理论和逼近理论方面有着悠久的历史。从本质上讲，数值分析和控制理论是跨学科的学科；它们需要数学和工程的几个领域的相互作用。这两个研究小组在建模、计算和分析方面的互补专业知识几乎确保了比独立努力更高的生产率。他们将重点放在几个当前感兴趣的航空航天飞行器和其他系统的控制系统上。

This award supports John A. Burns and Robert Wheeler of Virginia Polytechnic and State University (VPI) to collaborate in engineering systems research with Wolfgang Desch and others of the Institute for Mathematics of the University of Graz, Austria. Their collaboration focuses on two areas: stabilization of viscoelastic systems, and preservation of system properties under approximation. Their joint efforts benefit from expertise in different aspects of these problems. The VPI group has considerable experience in applications, modelling and computation (aerodynamics, large space structures, visco-elasticity and large scale computing), as well as a strong background in complex analysis and classical analysis. The researchers in Graz have a long history in semigroup theory, control theory and approximation theory. By their very nature, numerical analysis and control theory are interdisciplinary subjects; they require interaction of several fields of mathematics and engineering. The complementary expertise of the two research groups in modeling, computation and analysis virtually assures more productivity than independent efforts. They are focusing on several control systems of current interest for aerospace vehicles and other systems.