Irreversible thermodynamics and its link with system theory and control

Speaker：Denis Dochain

（Professor of UniversitéCatholique de Louvain, Belgium）

报告时间：5月23日上午10：30-11：30

报告地点：工商管理楼200-9

Title: Irreversible thermodynamics and its link with system theory and control

Abstract: The universal character of classical thermodynamics comes from the fact that it does not deal with a restricted class of systems and does not depend on any model nor assumptions on the structure of matter. One of the core quantities that is considered in thermodynamics is the energy of the considered system. Indeed as its name indicates, thermodynamics is concerned with the transformations of energy between its different forms. The objective of this seminar is  to present a synthesis of some recent results that allows to make the link between irreversible thermodynamics and system theory. One of the idea is to introduce physical insight into dynamical system theory when applied to reaction systems in general and to chemical processes in particular for process control.  Due to the central role of energy transfers and transformations and of the second law on the evolution of the process state and hence on its dynamical behaviour, the objective is to interpret system theory results for reaction systems in terms of energy and entropy considerations. 

个人简介：Denis Dochain received his degree in Electrical engineering in 1982 from the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain, Belgium. He completed his Ph.D. thesis and a thèsed’agrégation de l’enseignementsupérieur » in 1986 and 1994, respectively, also at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has been CNRS associate researcher at the LAAS (Toulouse, France) in 1989, and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada in 1987-88 and 1990-92. He has been with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, National Fund for Scientific Research), Belgium since 1990. Since September 1999, he is Professor at the CESAME (Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics), UniversitéCatholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Honorary Research Director of the FNRS. He has been invited professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada between 2002 and 2004. He is full professor at the UCL since 2005.

He is senior editor of the IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control and associate editor of Automatica, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Process Control. He is active since 1999 (Council member, Technical board member member, TC and CC chair) and is presently the chair of the IFAC Publication Committee He received the IFAC outstanding service award in 2008 and is an IFAC fellow since 2010.His main research interests are in the field of nonlinear systems, thermodynamics based control, parameter and state estimation, adaptive extremum seeking control and distributed parameter systems, with application to microbial ecology, environmental, biological and chemical systems, pulp and paper processes, polymerisation reactors, and electric systems. He is the (co-)author of 4 books, more than 110 papers in refereed journals and 200 international conference papers.

联系人：郜传厚（gaochou@zju.edu.cn）