Patent Document ID: 6151566
Application ID: 09004934
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus comprising: a processing unit; a memory system, said memory system being connected to said processing unit; and a program stored in said memory system for execution on said processing unit, said program including: an optimization mechanism that optimizes remediation of a contaminated groundwater site by a minimization of a groundwater remediation design objective J with respect to a groundwater remediation design vector v(t), wherein t denotes time, wherein v(t) is a piecewise continuous function of t, wherein J is functionally dependent on both v(t) and a state vector x(t), and wherein dx(t)/dt and v(t) are functionally related by a differential equation of: dx/dt=T(x(t),v(t),t) subject to the condition of x(t.sub.0)=x.sub.initial.