A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 327-338

  Wetter, M ^a,c   Polak, E ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUILDINGS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE; VECTORS;

DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; THERMAL BUILDING SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 11344291351     PISSN: 01436244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0143624404bt097oa     Document Type: Article

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