Fundamentals of Optimization Methods, Minimum Principles, and Applications for Making Things Better /

• Main Author: French, Mark (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Manufactures.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Transportation engineering.; Traffic engineering.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.

This textbook is for readers new or returning to the practice of optimization whose interest in the subject may relate to a wide range of products and processes. Rooted in the idea of "minimum principles," the book introduces the reader to the analytical tools needed to apply optimization...

Table of Contents:

• Optimization: The Big Ideas
• Getting Started in Optimization: Problems with a Single Variable
• Minimum Principles - Optimization in the Fabric of the Universe
• Problems with More Than One Variable
• Constraints - Placing Limits on the Solution
• General Conditions for Solving Optimization Problem - Karush Kuhn Tucker Conditions
• Discrete Variables
• Aerospace Applications
• Structural Optimization
• Multi-objective Optimization
• Appendix A - Calculus Refresher
• Appendix B - Test Functions
• Appendix C - Solving Optimization Problems using MATLAB.-.