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Record Nr.

UNISA996466512203316

Autore

Bernot Marc

Titolo

Optimal Transportation Networks [[electronic resource] ] : Models and Theory / / by Marc Bernot, Vicent Caselles, Jean-Michel Morel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-540-69315-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 200 p. 58 illus., 5 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1955

Disciplina

515.64

Soggetti

Calculus of variations

Operations research

Management science

Engineering economics

Engineering economy

Decision making

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization

Operations Research, Management Science

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

ISSN 0075-8434 for print edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Models -- The Mathematical Models -- Traffic Plans -- The Structure of Optimal Traffic Plans -- Operations on Traffic Plans -- Traffic Plans and Distances between Measures -- The Tree Structure of Optimal Traffic Plans and their Approximation -- Interior and Boundary Regularity -- The Equivalence of Various Models -- Irrigability and Dimension -- The Landscape of an Optimal Pattern -- The Gilbert-Steiner Problem -- Dirac to Lebesgue Segment: A Case Study -- Application: Embedded Irrigation Networks -- Open Problems.

Sommario/riassunto

The transportation problem can be formalized as the problem of



finding the optimal way to transport a given measure into another with the same mass. In contrast to the Monge-Kantorovitch problem, recent approaches model the branched structure of such supply networks as minima of an energy functional whose essential feature is to favour wide roads. Such a branched structure is observable in ground transportation networks, in draining and irrigation systems, in electrical power supply systems and in natural counterparts such as blood vessels or the branches of trees. These lectures provide mathematical proof of several existence, structure and regularity properties empirically observed in transportation networks. The link with previous discrete physical models of irrigation and erosion models in geomorphology and with discrete telecommunication and transportation models is discussed. It will be mathematically proven that the majority fit in the simple model sketched in this volume.