Chapters

  1. Introduction
  2. A Short History of Optimization
  3. Numerical Models and Solvers
  4. Unconstrained Gradient-Based Optimization
  5. Constrained Gradient-Based Optimization
  6. Computing Derivatives
  7. Gradient-Free Optimization
  8. Discrete Optimization
  9. Multiobjective Optimization
  10. Surrogate-Based Optimization
  11. Convex Optimization
  12. Optimization Under Uncertainty
  13. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

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Citations are available below.

Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Ning, Andrew. Engineering Design Optimization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022. doi:10.1017/9781108980647. URL https://mdobook.github.io

@book{mdobook,
author = {Joaquim R. R. A. Martins and Andrew Ning},
title = {Engineering Design Optimization},
doi = {10.1017/9781108980647},
isbn = {9781108833417},
month = {January},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
address = {Cambridge, UK},
url = {https://mdobook.github.io},
year = {2022}
}