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This paper deals with the optimal control of systems governed by nonlinear systems of conservation laws at junctions. The applications considered range from gas compressors in pipelines to open channels management. The existence of an optimal control is proved. From the analytical point of view, these results are based on the well posedness of a suitable initial boundary value problem and on techniques for quasidifferential equations in a metric space.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35L65, 49J20.

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We consider the Cauchy problem for the (strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear) system of conservation laws with relaxation Assume there exists an equilibrium curve A(u), such that r(u,A(u)) = 0. Under some assumptions on σ and r, we prove the existence of global (in time) solutions of bounded variation, uε, υε, for ε > 0 fixed.As ε → 0, we prove the convergence of a subsequence of uε, υε to some u, υ that satisfy the equilibrium equations

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