Computational optimization strategies for the simulation of random media and components

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 903-931

  Patelli, Edoardo ^a,b   Schuëller, Gerhart I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optimization techniques; Parallel computing; Random heterogeneous media; Simulation; Soft computing; Super elements

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOFT COMPUTING; TABU SEARCH;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGY; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; SUPER ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84856579261     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: 15732894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10589-012-9463-1     Document Type: Article

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