Community Problems

Community Problems and Solutions

These problems come from
Optimal Design for Problems Involving Flow and Transport Phenomena in Subsurface Systems,
A. S. Mayer, C. T. Kelley, and C. T. Miller, Advances in Water Resources, 12, 2002, 1233-1256.
The problems are fully described in the electronic supplement to the article.

and

"A Comparison of Derivative-Free Optimization Methods for Groundwater Supply and Hydraulic Capture Problems",
K. R. Fowler, J. P. Reese, C. E. Kees, J. E. Dennis, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, C. Audet, A. J. Booker, G. Couture, R. W. Darwin, M. W. Farthing, D. E. Finkel, J. M. Gablonsky, G. Gray, and T. G. Kolda Advances in Water Resources, 31, 2008, 743-757.

Other Publications on the Community Problems

CRSC-TR03-08: Solution of a Well-Field Design Problem with Implicit Filtering,
K. R. Kavanagh, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, Mark S. C. Reed, C. E. Kees, Robert W. Darwin, February, 2003.

Objective: provide a suite of optimization problems and solutions where

Problems are implemented with standard simulators.
All files, except the simulators, are packaged together. These include
- Data files and codes for the problems.
- Codes for the optimizers.
- Directions for finding and installing the simulators.
- Results from our computations.
Your choice of parallel (MPI) or serial versions.
In the parallel version, the optimizer calls many copies of the simulator in parallel. Internal parallelism for the simulators will come later.

Last modified: July 23, 1999