INTRODUCTION TO THEORY AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF INDUCTION HEATING PROCESSES -- Short Description of Operating Principles of Induction Heaters on the Level of Basic Physical Laws -- Mathematical modeling of Induction Heating Processes -- Typical Industrial Applications and Fundamental Principles of Induction Mass Heating -- Design Approaches of Induction Mass Heating -- Technological Complex “Heater–Equipment for Metal Hot Working” -- Technological and Economic Advantages of Induction Heating -- OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS FOR INDUCTION HEATING PROCESSES -- Overview of Induction Heating Prior to Metal Hot Working Operations as a Process under Control -- Cost Criteria -- Mathematical Models of a Heating Process -- Control Inputs -- Constraints -- Disturbances -- Requirements of Final Temperature Distribution within Heated Workpieces -- General Problem of Time-Optimal Control -- Model Problems of Optimal Control Respective to Typical Cost Functions -- METHOD FOR COMPUTATION OF OPTIMAL PROCESSES FOR INDUCTION HEATING OF METALS -- Universal Properties of Temperature Distribution within Workpieces at End of Time-Optimal Induction Heating Processes -- Extended Discussion on Properties of Final Temperature Distribution for Time-Optimal Induction Heating Processes -- Typical Profiles of Final Temperature Distribution and Set of Equations for Computation of Optimal Control Parameters -- Computational Technique for Time-Optimal Control Processes -- Application of Suggested Method to Model Problems Based on Typical Cost Functions -- Examples -- General Problem of Parametrical Optimization of Induction Heating Processes -- OPTIMAL CONTROL OF THE STATIC INDUCTION HEATING PROCESSES -- Time-Optimal Control for Linear One-Dimensional Models of Static IHP with Consideration of Technological Restraints -- Time-Optimal Problem, Taking into Consideration Billet Transportation to Metal Forming Operation -- Time-Optimal Heating under Incomplete Information with Respect to Controlled System -- Heating Process with Minimum Product Cost -- Optimal Control of Multidimensional Linear Models of Induction Heating Processes -- Optimal Control for Complicated Models of the Induction Heating Process -- OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PROGRESSIVE AND CONTINUOUS INDUCTION HEATING PROCESSES -- Optimization of Continuous Heaters at Steady-State Operating Conditions -- Optimization of Progressive Heaters at Steady-State Operating Conditions -- COMBINED OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION COMPLEX FOR INDUCTION BILLET HEATING AND SUBSEQUENT METAL HOT FORMING OPERATIONS -- Mathematical Models of Controlled Processes -- General Problem of Optimization of a Technological Complex -- Maximum Productivity Problem for an Industrial Complex “Induction Heater–Extrusion Press” -- Multiparameter Statement of the Optimization Problem for Technological Complex “Heating–Hot Forming” -- Combined Optimization of Heating and Pressing Modes for Aluminum Alloy Billets --     About Optimal IHI Design in Technological Complex “Heating — Hot Forming” -- Conclusion -- Index -- * -- Each chapter contains References for further study.