Thecontrollabilityandobservabilityareofgreatimportanceinboththeoryandapplications.Acompletetheoryhasbeenestablishedforlinearhyperbolicsystems,inparticular,forlinearwaveequations.Therehavealsobeensomeresultsforsemilinearwaveequations.Forquasilinearhyperbolicsystemsthathavenumerousapplicationsinmechanics,physicsandotherappliedsciences,however,veryfewresultsareavailableevenwithspacedimensionone.
Thismonographisbasedmainlyontheresultsobtainedbytheauthorandhiscollaboratorsinrecentyears.Bymea~softhetheoryonthesemi-globalclassicalsolution,asimpleanddirectconstructivemethodispresentedinasystematicwaytogetboththecontrollabilityandobservabilityintheframeworkofclassicalsolutionsforgeneralfirstorder1-Dquasilinearhyperbolicsystemswithgeneralnonlinearboundaryconditions.Correspondingapplicationsaregivenfor1-Dquasilinearwaveequationsandforunsteadyflowsinatree-likenetworkofopencanals,respectively.Morethanonehundredrelatedreferencesareprovided.
Thisbookwith11chaptersisself-contained.Anappendixisespeciallywrittenforthosereaderswhoarenotfamiliarwithquasilinearhyperbolicsystems.
Thisbookwillbeofbenefittoscholarsandgraduatestudentsinappliedmathematicsandappliedsciences.Itmaybeusedasatextbookoramainreferenceforgraduatestudentsincorrespondingareas.