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Optimisation (IDX module-Mech Eng use only)
Module syllabus
Topics covered include unconstrained optimisation and the associated algorithms of steepest descent and conjugate gradient, Newton methods, rates of convergence, constrained optimisation and the method of Lagrange multipliers, quadratic programming, penalty methods. A brief introduction to global optimization and integer programming will be also given.