Dakota Reference Manual  Version 6.4 Large-Scale Engineering Optimization and Uncertainty Analysis
linear_inequality_lower_bounds

Define lower bounds for the linear inequality constraint

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): REALLIST

Default: vector values = -infinity

## Description

In the inequality case, the lower and upper bounds provide constraint limits for the two-sided formulation:

Where is the constrain matrix of variable coefficients.

As with nonlinear inequality constraints (see objective_functions), the default linear inequality constraint bounds are selected so that one-sided inequalities of the form

result when there are no user bounds specifications (this provides backwards compatibility with previous Dakota versions).

In a user bounds specification, any upper bound values greater than +bigRealBoundSize (1.e+30, as defined in Minimizer) are treated as +infinity and any lower bound values less than -bigRealBoundSize are treated as -infinity.

This feature is commonly used to drop one of the bounds in order to specify a 1-sided constraint (just as the default lower bounds drop out since -DBL_MAX < -bigRealBoundSize).