An infeasible point method for minimizing the Lennard-Jones potential

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-286

  Gockenbach, Mark S ^a   Kearsley, Anthony J ^b   Symes, William W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Global optimization; Non linear programming; Penalty methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LENNARD JONES POTENTIAL;

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031281231     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008627606581     Document Type: Article

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