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A book dedicated to optimization applied to practical engineering configurations must probably start with a warning: “optimization” means much more than “improvement”! It is indeed a pity that so many researchers and engineers still employ the terminology “optimization” in the title or abstract of their publications when they simply mean in practice that starting from a non-satisfactory configuration, they have tried two or three other ones and chosen at the end the best case. This is undoubtedly related to optimization, but in a very minimalistic sense! In the present book optimization means
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Thévenin, D. (2008). Introduction. In: Thévenin, D., Janiga, G. (eds) Optimization and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72153-6_1
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