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

该奖项支持弗吉尼亚理工大学和州立大学（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等人在工程系统研究方面的合作。他们的合作主要集中在两个领域：粘弹性系统的稳定，以及在近似下保持系统特性。他们的共同努力得益于这些问题不同方面的专门知识。VPI组在应用、建模和计算（空气动力学、大空间结构、粘弹性和大规模计算）方面有相当丰富的经验，在复杂分析和经典分析方面也有很强的背景。格拉茨大学的研究人员在半群理论、控制理论和近似理论方面有着悠久的历史。就其本质而言，数值分析和控制理论是交叉学科；它们需要数学和工程几个领域的相互作用。两个研究小组在建模、计算和分析方面的互补专业知识实际上确保了比独立工作更高的生产力。他们专注于当前航空航天飞行器和其他系统感兴趣的几个控制系统。

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.