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MECH_ENG 432: The Calculus of Variations and its Applications

Calculus to the level of ODEs, partial derivative and multiple integrals, some knowledge of PDEs helpful but not essential. Students should have a certain comfort level with dealing with advanced ...
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Bernstein Polynomials Method and it’s Error Analysis for Solving Nonlinear Problems in the Calculus of Variations

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, Bernstein polynomials method (BPM) and their operational matrices are adopted to obtain approximate analytical solutions of ...
Nature

Calculus of Variations, Mathematical Aspects of Systems Theory and Control Theory

Calculus of variations establishes a framework to determine the extrema of functionals—mappings from functions to real numbers—which has been pivotal in elucidating natural principles such as the ...
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The Variable End Point Problem of the Calculus of Variations Including a Generalization of the Classical Jacobi Conditions

https://doi.org/10.2307/1989373 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1989373 Copy URL ...
Nature

Variation Problems for a Symmetrical Region

IN a review in NATURE 1 it is stated that the equation of conduction of heat can be regarded only as a limiting case of an equation arising in the calculus of variations. A successful attempt has been ...