Project Optimization: Using MATLAB and SOLVER

✍ Scribed by Reyolando M.L.R.F. Brasil; Marcelo Araujo da Silva

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 148
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive and easy to understand introduction to a wide range of tools to help designers to optimize their projects. The authors are engineers and therefore many of the examples are on engineering applications, but the techniques presented are common to various areas of knowledge and pervade disciplinary divisions. The book describes the fundamental ideas, mathematical and graphic methods and shows how to use Matlab and EXCEL for optimization.

• comprehensive
• easy to understand
• norm consistent
• following a single notation

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
About notation
Chapter 1. Fundamental ideas
Chapter 2. Essential mathematical optimization tools
Chapter 3. Graphic method
Chapter 4. Linear programming
Chapter 5. Using MATLAB optimization toolbox
Chapter 6. Numerical methods for nonlinear non-constrained optimization
Chapter 7. Nature-inspired optimization methods
Chapter 8. Topology optimization and reliability
Chapter 9. Using Excel Solver in optimization problems
Appendix
References
Index