Models in this form are actually called bilinear optimization problems. The typical approach to linearizing bilinear terms is through something called the McCormick envelope. Consider variables x and y, where you want x*y in the objective of your maximization problem. If we assume x and y are bounded by xL <= x <= xU and … Read more
I would try field approach similar to this. Each slider will retract all sliders away with force scaled by distance^2 like all of them would have the same polarity electric charge or springs attached in between each other. On top of that add friction scaled by speed does not really matter if air v^2 or … Read more
Pulp is a python modeling interface that hooks up to solvers like CBC(open source), CPLEX (commercial), Gurobi(commercial), XPRESS-MP(commercial) and YALMIP(open source). You can also use Pyomo to model the optimization problem and then call an external solver, namely CPLEX, Gurobi GLPK and the AMPL solver library. You can also call GLPK from GLPK/Python, PyGLPK or … Read more