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Engineering design optimization

This is a graduate-level textbook covering a range of fundamental to advanced optimization theory and algorithms with practical tips, numerous illustrations, and engineering examples.

Table of contents:

  • Introduction.
  • A short history of optimization.
  • Numerical models and solvers.
  • Unconstrained gradient-based optimization.
  • Constrained gradient-based optimization.
  • Computing derivatives.
  • Gradient-free optimization.
  • Discrete optimization.
  • Multiobjective optimization.
  • Surrogate-based optimization.
  • Convex optimization.
  • Optimization under uncertainty.
  • Multidisciplinary design optimization.

Textbook: Engineering design optimization.