Modeling And Optimization Theory And Applications

Modern petroleum and petrotechnical engineering is increasingly challenging due to the inherently scarce and decreasing number of global petroleum resources. Exploiting these resources efficiently will require researchers, scientists, engineers and other practitioners to develop innovative mathematical solutions to serve as basis for new asset development designs.

by Madhu N. Belur (Editor), M. Kanat Camlibel (Editor), Paolo Rapisarda (Editor), Jacquelien M.A. Scherpen (Editor)

​This textbook on Linear and Nonlinear Optimization is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in operations research and related fields. It is both literate and mathematically strong, yet requires no prior course in optimization.

This publication is a Special Issue of the journal Axioms entitled “Calculus of Variations, Optimal Control and Mathematical Biology: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Professor Delfim F. M. Torres on the Occasion of His 50th birthday”. This Special Issue is dedicated to Professor Delfim F. M. Torres on his 50th birthday, as a recognition of his significant contributions to Mathematics, in particular regarding the calculus of variations, optimal control, and mathematical biology. Professor Torres is a distinguished University Professor, a highly cited researcher in Mathematics (in the top 1% for Mathematics in the Web of Science in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019), and a lifetime member of the American Mathematical Society.