Optimizing the rate of decay of solutions of the wave equation using genetic algorithms: A counterexample to the constant damping conjecture

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 376-387

  Freitas, Pedro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DAMPED WAVE EQUATION; SPECTRAL ABSCISSA;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032202097     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0363012997329445     Document Type: Article

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