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Back Data Assimilation Using Pseudospectral Optimal Control

Fiscal Year 2008
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Applied Mathematics
Investigator(s) Kang, Wei
Sponsor Naval Research Laboratory (Navy)
Summary The objective of this research project is to explore the potential and advantage of applying the state-of-the-art in optimal control theory to the problem of data assimilation. More specifically, the research focus is on the application of Pseudospectral (PS) optimal control to the problem of data assimilation subject to nonlinear dynamics. The goal is to develop discretization methods based upon PS optimal control that uses fewer nodes than conventional approaches, which implies a relatively lower dimension in the discretized nonlinear Optimization.
Keywords Data Assimilation Computational Optimal Control
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