Abstract: In some industrial processes the control transients are accompanied by thermal transients which produce damaging thermal stresses in parts of the apparatus. The steam turbine start-up may be ...

Abstract: Analysis of piecewise linear systems may require the solution of high-order linear differential equations whose parameters are constants within a given region but change into different constants ...

Abstract: The design of a sampled-data nonlinear system for three-axes acceleration measurement is discussed. The basic specific force equation is given, and the equation for the indicated velocity (integral ...

Abstract: A problem in the optimal control of a nuclear rocket requires the minimization of a functional subject to an integral equation constraint and an integrodifferential inequality constraint. A ...

Abstract: A newly developed instrument has been successfully evaluated and applied to the measurement of marine aerosols. The instrument, known as the Scattering Spectrometer System (SSS), utilizes coherent ...

Abstract: A distributed parameter thermal and stress model is developed for a nuclear rocket. The resultant equations for the optimal control problem are a pair of coupled, bilinear, partial differential ...

Abstract: Gas turbine power plants are increasingly finding use as prime movers in Naval and commercial vessels, at-sea drilling platforms, and land-based power generating stations. With this rise in ...

Abstract: The problem considered here is that of controlling the flow rate through a nuclear rocket such that temperature gradients in the fuel elements, and the corresponding thermal stresses produced, ...