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The problem of heating thin bodies optimally, in terms of a composite minimum fuel cost and metal loss by oxidation, is solved analytically. The solution is based on L. S. Pontryagin's maximum principle.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizieheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 545–549, September, 1972.
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Gol'dfarb, é.M., Ibraev, V.S. Variational problem of heating thin bodies. Journal of Engineering Physics 23, 1195–1198 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832238
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832238