Effective two-point function approximation for design optimization

AIAA Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2269-2275

  Xu, Suqiang ^a,b,c   Grandhi, Ramana V ^a,b,c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Mech and Mat Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HESSIAN MATRIX; TAYLOR-SERIES EXPANSION; TWO-POINT FUNCTION APPROXIMATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032290925     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.337     Document Type: Article

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