FUEL-CONSUMPTION-MINIMUM-BASED SELECTION OF THE REGIME 
OF HEATING OF A METAL BY THE MAIN OPTIMIZATION METHOD

V. B. Kovalevskii, V. I. Timoshpol'skii, and V. T. Svirid

UDC 669.012.9

Consideration is given to the solution of the problem 
of minimization of fuel consumption in heating a rectangular prism 
in a continuous furnace.

Belarusian National Technical University, Minsk, Belarus; 
email: vsawake@xandex.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 138-141, July-August, 2003. Original article 
submitted December 11, 2002.