Interior point multigrid methods for topology optimization

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 214-224

  Maar, B ^a   Schulz, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

HOMOGENIZATION METHODS; INTERIOR POINT MULTIGRID METHODS; LINEAR-QUADRATIC SUBPROBLEMS; NONLINEAR INTERIOR POINT METHODS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034186238     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580050104     Document Type: Article

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