Optimizing ship speed to minimize fuel consumption

Transportation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 109-117

  Kim, Jae Gon ^a   Kim, Hwa Joong ^b   Lee, Paul Tae Woo ^c  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Fuel consumption; Nonlinear program; Optimal algorithm; Ship speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903612297     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1942787514Y.0000000016     Document Type: Article

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