help-gsl
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Help-gsl] Multidimensional Minimization of a nonlinear function.


From: Brian Gough
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] Multidimensional Minimization of a nonlinear function.
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0100

Eric Germaneau writes:
 > I'd like to perform the minimisation of a 6-D nonlinear
 > function. By nonlinear I want to say tha there is no analytic
 > expression of this function.  I've read that the simplex algorithm
 > is very efficient for such task.  Id like to use gsl to solve this
 > problem but it seems that with the 'gsl_multimin.h' library one
 > have to provide the espression of the function one wish to
 > minimize.  So does someone has an idea for solving this problem
 > with gsl?  If it's not possible what can i do?

GSL uses a "callback" to get values from a C function that you
provide--this is how most minimisation programs work.

-- 
Brian Gough




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]