ECH 5626 Chemical Process Optimization (3)

Development Of Techniques For Unconstrained Minimization Of Multivariate Functions. Numerical Techniques Include Steepest Descent, Newton’s Methods, Quasi-newton’s Methods, And Conjugate-gradient Methods. Introduction To Linear And Nonlinear Programming. Simplex Method, Duality In Linear Programming. Lagrange Multiplier Method, Kuhn-tucker Theorems, Penalty Function And Augmented Lagrangian Methods.
Prerequisite: ECH 4323 Or EquIValent.