Design of Paint Formulations. Formulations for Pigment Dispersion.

Evaluation of Level Set Topology Optimization Formulations for Design of Minimum-dispersion Microfluidic Devices

Applying topology optimization to minimize the sample dispersion of a microfluidic device is challenging in part because the fictitious permeability used to classify topological regions tends to a smooth non-Boolean field, in contradiction to the requirement that a valid solution be Boolean. Imposing the Boolean condition must be done carefully in order to avoid spurious local minimizers or an ...

Conic Quadratic Formulations for Wireless Communications Design

As a wide class of resource management problems in wireless communications are nonconvex and even NP-hard in many cases, finding globally optimal solutions to these problems is of little practical interest. Towards more pragmatic approaches, there is a rich literature on iterative methods aiming at finding a solution satisfying necessary optimality conditions to these problems. These approaches...

Improved Formulations for Survivable Network Design

Derivative Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Losartan in Pharmaceutical Formulations

Losartan, a highly effective blood pressure lowering agent, has been widely used for the treatment of hypertension. A fast and reliable method for the determination of losartan was highly desirable to support formulation screening and quality control. A first derivative UV spectroscopic method was developed for determination of losartan in the tablet dosage form. The first derivative spectrum r...

Unified Scaling of Dynamic Optimization Design Formulations

In this article, we explore scaling in dynamic optimization with a particular focus on how to leverage scaling in design studies. Here scaling refers to the process of suitable change of variables and algebraic manipulations to arrive at equivalent forms. The necessary theory for scaling dynamic optimization formulations is presented and a number of motivating examples are shown. The presented ...