Optimization by Variational Methods
Optimization by Variational Methods by Morton M. Denn
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | 1969 | ISBN: 0070163952 | 416 pages | PDF | 8,05 MB
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | 1969 | ISBN: 0070163952 | 416 pages | PDF | 8,05 MB
The development of a systematic theory of optimization since the mid 1950s has not been followed by widespread application to the design and control problems of the process industries. This surprising and disappointing fact is largely a consequence of the absence of effective communication between theorists and process engineers, for the latter typically do not have ,sufficient mathematical training to look past the sophistication with which optimization theory is usually presented and recognize the practical significance of the results. This book is an attempt to present a logical development of optimization theory at an elementary mathematical level, with applications to simple but typical process design and control situations.
The book follows rather closely a course in optimization which I have taught at the University of Delaware since 1965 to classes made up of graduate students and extension students from local industry, together with some seniors. Approximately half of the students each year have been chemical engineers, with the remainder made up of other types of engineers, statisticians, and computer scientists.