Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780195100563 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 480 str.

Christodoulos A. Floudas

Opis

Filling a void in chemical engineering and optimization literature, this book presents the theory and methods for nonlinear and mixed-integer optimization, and their applications in the important area of process synthesis. Other topics include modeling issues in process synthesis, and optimization-based approaches in the synthesis of heat recovery systems, distillation-based systems, and reactor-based systems. The basics of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization are also covered and the elementary concepts of mixed-integer linear optimization are introduced. All chapters have several illustrations and geometrical interpretations of the material as well as suggested problems. Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization will prove to be an invaluable source--either as a textbook or a reference--for researchers and graduate students interested in continuous and discrete nonlinear optimization issues in engineering design, process synthesis, process operations, applied mathematics, operations research, industrial management, and systems engineering.

Recenzje

sets a standard for clarity and completeness that will be difficult to surpass. The author presents a comprehensive survey of this field, to which he himself has notably contributed, and thus combines and unifies diverse results that hitherto were scattered throughout the literature