• Comparison of Discrete and Continuous Models for the Pooling Problem 

      Alfaki, Mohammed; Haugland, Dag (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The pooling problem is an important global optimization problem which is encountered in many industrial settings. It is traditionally modeled as a bilinear, nonconvex optimization problem, and solved by branch-and-bound ...
    • Models and Solution Methods for the Pooling Problem 

      Alfaki, Mohammed (Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-18)
      Pipeline transportation of natural gas is largely affected by restrictions regarding gas quality imposed by the market and the actual quality of the gas produced at sources. From the sources, gas flow streams of unequal ...