Research Reports from the Department of Operations
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Date
8-30-1972
Abstract
This problem involves the synthesis of a system to supply crude oil to refineries by transporting it in tankers that travel on various routes of a network. The costs involved are non-convex, which is assumed to mean that they are sufficiently non-linear to preclude approximations by convex functions, and specifically includes the possibility of integer-valued functions and fixed costs. The problem was inspired by considerations of a crude oil transshipment system, but the resulting formulation is sufficiently general to include many types of network problems with non-linear flows or costs, which can be discretized.
Keywords
Operations research, Petroleum--Transportation, Transportation--Mathematical models, Supply chain management
Publication Title
Dissertation/Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Issue
Technical memorandum no. 264; Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Rights
This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use
Recommended Citation
Mathis, Samuel Jackson, "Synthesis of a Crude Oil Supply System: a Non-Convex Network Problem" (1972). Research Reports from the Department of Operations. 584.
https://commons.case.edu/wsom-ops-reports/584