In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Mass, heat and power integration between chemical processes ...

Large-scale distributed renewable energy in the distribution network can result in reliability issues such as exceeding voltage limits and overloading power lines. Additionally, the rapid growth of ...

Dedicated to the late Professor M. J. D. Powell FRS (1936–2015). To use the Python version of PDFO on Linux, Mac, or Windows, you need Python (version 3.8 or above). It is highly recommended to ...

PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's renowned derivative-free optimization methods, i ...

Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, U.K. Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine, ...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) [1] can be described as the set of techniques that assist the computer to provide the numerical simulation of the fluid flows. The three basic principles that can ...

This paper presents a continuous method for solving binary quadratic programming problems. First, the original problem is converted into an equivalent continuous optimization problem by using NCP ...

1 Department of Computer Science, Catholic University College of Ghana, Sunyani, Ghana. 2 Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, ...

Reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is associated with decreased risk for cardiovascular disease. Alirocumab, an antibody to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), ...