CONMIN swMATH ID: 4741 Software Authors: G.N. Vanderplaats Description: CONMIN is a FORTRAN program, in subroutine form, for the solution of linear or nonlinear constrained optimization problems. The basic optimization algorithm is the Method of Feasible Directions. The user must provide a main calling program and an external routine to evaluate the objective and constraint functions and to provide gradient information. If analytic gradients of the objective or constraint functions are not available, this information is calculated by finite difference. While the program is intended primarily for efficient solution of constrained problems, unconstrained function minimization problems may also be solved, and the conjugate direction method of Fletcher and Reeves is used for this purpose. This manual describes the use of CONMIN and defines all necessary parameters. Sufficient information is provided so that the program can be used without special knowledge of optimization techniques. Sample problems are inc! luded to help the user become familiar with CONMIN and to make the program operational. Homepage: http://jblevins.org/mirror/amiller/conmin.zip Programming Languages: Fortran90 Operating Systems: None Dependencies: None Keywords: unconstrained optimization; conjugate gradient method; Newton directions; large scale test examples; numerical comparisons; convergence acceleration; algorithm; forward difference approximation of Hessian/vector product Related Software: CUTEr; Algorithm 500; CUTE; SCALCG; MINPACK-2; L-BFGS; PANDA; VICONOPT; ACGSSV; DAKOTA; CG_DESCENT; avida; DFVLR-SQP; OpenMDAO; SciTools; Python; Decision tree for optimization software; TAO; NLPQL; pyMDO Cited in: 52 Publications all top 5 Cited by 84 Authors 6 Andrei, Neculai 3 Pagaldipti, N. 3 Schmit, Lucien A. jun. 2 Braibant, Vincent 2 Bushnell, David H. 2 Dovi, Augustine R. 2 Fleury, Claude 2 le Pape, Arnaud 1 Al-Shihiri, M. 1 Ashley, Holt 1 Baldwin, J. D. 1 Beaumier, Philippe 1 Bennett, James A. 1 Berke, Laszlo 1 Borlase, George A. 1 Bucy, Richard S. 1 Burguburu, Stéphane 1 Dutt, H. N. V. 1 Esmailzadeh, Ebrahim 1 Fan, Weiguo 1 Felton, Lewis P. 1 Fuchs, Moshe B. 1 Geem, Zong Woo 1 German, M. D. 1 Guptill, James D. 1 Heydari, Masoud 1 Holstad, Astrid 1 Hsu, Yeh-Liang 1 Imam, Muhammad Hasan 1 James, Benjamin B. 1 Jansen, Peter W. 1 Jin, Ik Min 1 Kim, Jongeun 1 Kitis, Levent 1 Koomullil, Roy P. 1 Kwon, Tai Hun 1 Lamancusa, John S. 1 Lasdon, Leon S. 1 Lust, R. V. 1 Madden, J. F. III 1 Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. 1 McCarthy, T. R. 1 McIntosh, Samuel C. jun. 1 Ming, Daohua 1 Moharrami, Hamid 1 Namiri, M. K. 1 Park, Seong-Jin 1 Patnaik, Surya N. 1 Perez, Ruben E. 1 Phua, Paul Kang-Hoh 1 Pilkey, Walter D. 1 Rajadas, J. N. 1 Ramu, K. N. Seetha 1 Rao, G. Venkateswara 1 Rao, Vinay N. 1 Raydan, Marcos 1 Ross, Doug H. 1 Saka, Mehmet Polat 1 Satyanarayana, K. 1 Sedaghati, Ramin 1 Sepulveda, Abdon E. 1 Shen, Jie 1 Sheppard, S. D. 1 Shih, Alan M. 1 Sistla, Rajaram 1 Sobieszczanski-Sobieski, Jaroslaw 1 Soni, Bharat K. 1 Sreekanth, A. K. 1 Tanskanen, Pasi 1 Thomas, Harold L. 1 Tyler, A. A. 1 Vanderplaats, Garret N. 1 Velman, J. R. 1 Venkayya, Vipperla B. 1 Vlahopoulos, Nickolas 1 Wang, BoPing 1 Waren, Allan D. 1 Wilde, Douglass J. 1 Williams, Frederic W. 1 Yazdani-Paraei, Hadi 1 Yoon, David K. 1 York, C. B. 1 Zhang, S. 1 Zhang, Yan all top 5 Cited in 23 Serials 11 Computers and Structures 5 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 4 AIAA Journal 4 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 3 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 3 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2 Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2 Aerospace Science and Technology 1 International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 1 International Journal of Solids and Structures 1 Journal of Sound and Vibration 1 Calcolo 1 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 1 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 1 Operations Research 1 Optimization 1 Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 1 Mathematical and Computer Modelling 1 Numerical Algorithms 1 SIAM Journal on Optimization 1 Advances in Engineering Software 1 Computational Geosciences 1 Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization all top 5 Cited in 10 Fields 29 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 13 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 11 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 9 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 4 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 3 Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX) 2 Computer science (68-XX) 2 Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) Citations by Year