Optimization and Engineering 2022

Black-box surrogate-based optimization has received increasing attention due to the growing interest in solving optimization problems with embedded simulation data. The main challenge in surrogate-based optimization is the lack of consistently convergent behavior, due to the variability introduced by initialization,…

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 2022

William Bradley Gabriel S. Gusmão Andrew J. Medford Fani Boukouvala

A common step in developing generalizable, dynamic mechanistic models is to fit unmeasured parameters to measured data. Fitting differential equation-based models can be computationally expensive due to the presence of nonlinearity and stiffness. This work proposes a two-stage indirect approach…