| 期刊全稱 | Advances in Geometric Programming | | 影響因子2023 | Mordecai Avriel | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/149/148125/148125.mp4 | | 學(xué)科分類 | Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering | | 圖書封面 |  | | 影響因子 | In 1961, C. Zener, then Director of Science at Westinghouse Corpora- tion, and a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences who has made important contributions to physics and engineering, published a short article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled" A Mathe- matical Aid in Optimizing Engineering Design. " In this article Zener considered the problem of finding an optimal engineering design that can often be expressed as the problem of minimizing a numerical cost function, termed a "generalized polynomial," consisting of a sum of terms, where each term is a product of a positive constant and the design variables, raised to arbitrary powers. He observed that if the number of terms exceeds the number of variables by one, the optimal values of the design variables can be easily found by solving a set of linear equations. Furthermore, certain invariances of the relative contribution of each term to the total cost can be deduced. The mathematical intricacies in Zener‘s method soon raised the curiosity of R. J. Duffin, the distinguished mathematician from Carnegie- Mellon University who joined forces with Zener in laying the rigorous mathematical founda | | Pindex | Book 1980 |
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