The successful case of the optimizer WORHP Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 11 December 2014
- Venue:
- Boldrewood campus B175 Seminar Room 1025
Event details
FSI/SMMI/LR Joint Seminar
WORHP is a software library for mathematical nonlinear optimization, suitable for solving problems with thousands or even millions of variables and constraints. Typical use cases include
- emission minimisation of aircrafts;
- path planning for satellites, aircrafts, cars;
- reactor design;
- optimal control of diesel engines;
- model-predictive control of vessel fleets;
- generic optimal control problems;
- shape optimization;
- multidisciplinary design optimization;
and others. WORHP has been designed to solve small to very large-scale nonlinear optimisation problems, with an emphasis on solving large-scale, sparse problems arising from full discretisation of optimal control problems. In this talk, we highlight some features of the software that makes it particularly useful for problems in engineering design and optimisation, and describe some examples.
Speaker information
Prof.Joerg Fliege ,Joerg studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Dortmund in 1993 and received his PhD in 1997 and his Habilitation and his venia legend in 2001 from the same institution. He has held visiting positions at the University of Berkeley, California, in 1998, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, in 1999, the Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2001-2003, and the University of Dortmund in 2000 and 2003-2004. In 2004, he became Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, UK, while in 2007 he became full professor and took up the chair for Operational Research at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests include hard problems in nonlinear optimization, for which presently no or few satisfactory computational tools are available. As such, he is interested in algorithms and methods for multiobjective optimization, global optimization, optimization under uncertainty, multilevel optimization and others, as well as their applications, especially in engineering. Joerg was part of the development team of the WORHP optimization solver and its processor FGS Toolbox, where he led the development of the multiobjective add-on FGS-MCS. He is presently part of the project team of AWACS (Adaption of WORHP for Avionics Constraints), where he is leading the extension of WORHP to multiobjective problems.