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Engineering Design Optimization
  • Joaquim R. R. A. Martins, Andrew Ning
  • Published online:
    05 January 2022
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021
  • Based on course-tested material, this rigorous yet accessible graduate textbook covers both fundamental and advanced optimization theory and algorithms. It covers a wide range of numerical methods and topics, including both gradient-based and gradient-free algorithms, multidisciplinary design optimization, and uncertainty, with instruction on how to determine which algorithm should be used for a given application. It also provides an overview of models and how to prepare them for use with numerical optimization, including derivative computation. Over 400 high-quality visualizations and numerous examples facilitate understanding of the theory, and practical tips address common issues encountered in practical engineering design optimization and how to address them. Numerous end-of-chapter homework problems, progressing in difficulty, help put knowledge into practice. Accompanied online by a solutions manual for instructors and source code for problems, this is ideal for a one- or two-semester graduate course on optimization in aerospace, civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering departments.

  • 6 - Governance

  • from Part II - Empirical Explorations
  • Rolf Kunneke, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, Claude Ménard, Université de Paris I, John Groenewegen, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Network Infrastructures
    Published online:
    02 December 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 148-176

  • Summary

    Water provision and wastewater treatment are crucial for the survival of human beings. Having access to safe drinkable water responds to an essential human need. This chapter builds on our alignment framework, in order to investigate the second layer of our framework, which concerns the alignment between the technological design of a network infrastructure and the meso-institutions that regulate its domain of action. As argued in the previous chapters, we consider governance to be a key concept in understanding the alignment or misalignment within this layer. We investigate the issues at stake through a careful study of the Singaporean water and wastewater infrastructures. Indeed, beyond its spectacular success, Singapore provides a rich example for better understanding modalities that allowed an initially poor country to align the institutional rules framing the organization of its water and wastewater network with the variety of technological solutions selected to overcome the dramatic scarcity of its resources. Through this analytical narrative, our chapter shows the combination of entities and devices that underpin the modalities of governance, through which context-specific technologies and specific institutional norms and rules can be either successfully aligned or suffer from misalignment.

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