With numerous examples and exercises throughout, this book describes the control behavior of mechanical objects, such as wave equations, plates, and shells. It presents a complete and up-to-date account of many important advances in the modeling and control of vibrational and structural dynamics. The text applies the differential geometric approach to waves, plates, shells, and quasilinear systems and describes differential geometric energy methods that are generalizations of classical energy methods. To make the book self-contained, the author gives an introduction to Riemannian geometry.
