Using approximations to accelerate engineering design optimization

7th AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 738-748

  Torczon, Virginia ^a   Trosset, Michael W ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

ALGEBRAIC APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84983200505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-4800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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