“…The important role of the Goursat–Darboux problem is in the optimization theory of distributed systems (Vasil’ev, 2002; Vasil’ev et al, 1990). The authors of Egorov (1965), Egorov (1966), Kazemi–Dehkordi (1986), Plotnikov and Sumin (1972a), Plotnikov and Sumin (1972b), Srochko (1984), Suryanarayana (1972) and Suryanarayana (1973) have studied the continuous Goursat–Darboux optimal control problem from the point of view of Pontryagin’s maximum principle. Though in Belbass (1990), the author has utilized the dynamic programming approach to optimal control problem for the continuous Goursat–Darboux systems with distributed controls.…”