Modeling, Analysis, Monitoring, and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems: The Tubular Reactor Case Study
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The tubular reactor offers several important advantages when teaching and studying distributed parameter systems: It covers multiple partial differential equation classes, bridges finite- and infinite-dimensional models, demonstrates diverse behaviors, links theory to practice, and has a broad scope of application in biological, environmental, and chemical systems.
This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in automatic control.
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About the author
Denis Dochain is an Emeritus Full Professor at UCLouvain, Belgium, and an Honorary Research Director at FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research), Belgium. He had been a full professor at the INMA (Mathematical Engineering) pole of the ICTEAM Institute, UCLouvain, and an invited professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He is senior editor of Journal of Process Control and associate editor of Automatica. He received an Outstanding Service Award from IFAC and is an IFAC Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He holds a doctor honoris causa from Grenoble INP. He is the author or co-author of five books, more than 180 papers in refereed journals, and more than 280 international conference papers. His main research interests are in the fields of distributed parameter systems, nonlinear systems, parameter and state estimation, and adaptive extremum seeking control.
