Finite Elements-Based Optimization: Electromagnetic Product Design and Nondestructive Evaluation
暫譯: 基於有限元素的優化：電磁產品設計與非破壞性評估

這本書旨在成為學生和研究人員理解有限元素法（finite element method）和優化方法的食譜，並將它們結合以實現形狀優化。書中的優化部分將調查優化方法，並專注於遺傳演算法（genetic algorithm）和鮑威爾法（Powell's method）在程式中的實現。它將包含相關演算法的偽代碼和作業問題，以加強理論，編寫能夠進行形狀優化的有限元素程式。

特點
- 使讀者能夠理解有限元素法和優化方法，並將它們結合以實現形狀優化
- 提供簡單的方法和演算法進行合成
- 專注於電磁裝置的自動化計算機輔助設計（CAD）
- 提供一個統一的框架，涉及優化和數值建模
- 討論如何將開源網格生成器整合到您的程式中
- 指出如何以低成本使用當今大多數個人電腦上可用的圖形處理單元（GPU）來平行化演算法，特別是矩陣解決和優化
- 包含使用超熱療法（hyperthermia）作為例子的耦合問題優化

S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole, B.Sc. Eng. Hons Cey., M.Sc. with Mark of Distinction London, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University in the US. For his accomplishments in electromagnetic product synthesis the University of London awarded him its higher doctorate, the D.Sc. (Eng.) degree, in 1993, and the IEEE elevated him to the grade of Fellow in 1995 with the citation "For contributions to computational methods for design optimization of electrical devices." His paper on using his inverse problem methods from design for NDE is widely cited, as is his paper on neural networks for the same purpose. These appear in The IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (1991 and 1993, respectively). He has authored 5 engineering texts published by Elsevier, another by Elsevier now carried by Prentice Hall, Oxford, Cambridge (India) and WIT Press.

Prof. Hoole has been Vice Chancellor of University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, and as Member of the University Grants Commission there, was responsible with six others for the regulation of the administration and academic standards of all 15 Sri Lankan universities and their admissions and funding. He has contributed widely to the learned literature on Tamil studies and been a regular columnist in newspapers. Prof. Hoole has been trained in Human Rights Research and Teaching at The René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, and has pioneered teaching human rights in the engineering curriculum.

Yovahn Y. Ratnajeevan Hoole is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University. He is currently working towards a doctorate in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in Optimization, Machine Learning and their applications to real world engineering problems.

S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole，榮譽理學士（Cey.），倫敦大學碩士（以優異成績畢業），卡內基梅隆大學博士，是美國密西根州立大學電機與計算機工程系的教授。因其在電磁產品合成方面的成就，倫敦大學於1993年授予他更高的博士學位D.Sc. (Eng.)，並於1995年將他提升為IEEE Fellow，表彰其「對電氣設備設計優化計算方法的貢獻」。他關於使用逆問題方法進行無損檢測（NDE）設計的論文被廣泛引用，與此相同目的的神經網絡論文也受到重視。這些論文發表於《IEEE Transactions on Magnetics》（分別於1991年和1993年）。他已撰寫5本由Elsevier出版的工程學教材，另一本由Elsevier出版，現由Prentice Hall、Oxford、Cambridge（印度）和WIT Press發行。

霍爾教授曾擔任斯里蘭卡雅夫納大學的副校長，並作為該校大學撥款委員會的成員，與其他六人共同負責所有15所斯里蘭卡大學的行政和學術標準的規範，以及其招生和資金問題。他在泰米爾研究的學術文獻中貢獻良多，並且是報紙的定期專欄作家。霍爾教授在法國斯特拉斯堡的雷內·卡辛國際人權研究與教學院接受了人權研究與教學的培訓，並在工程課程中開創了人權教學的先河。

Yovahn Y. Ratnajeevan Hoole是伊利諾伊大學香檳分校的研究生。他擁有萊斯大學的計算機科學學士學位和電氣工程學士學位。目前，他正在攻讀電氣工程博士學位。他的研究興趣包括優化、機器學習及其在現實工程問題中的應用。