GPkit is a Python package for defining and manipulating geometric programming (GP) models, abstracting away the backend solver. Supported solvers are MOSEK and CVXOPT.

Table of contents

• Geometric Programming 101
  • What is a GP?
  • Why are GPs special?
  • What are Signomials / Signomial Programs?
  • Where can I learn more?
• GPkit Overview
  • Symbolic expressions
  • Substitution
  • Model objects
• Installation Instructions
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Getting Started
  • Writing GPkit Scripts
• Basic Commands
  • Importing Modules
  • Declaring Variables
  • Creating Monomials and Posynomials
  • Declaring Constraints
  • Declaring Objective Functions
  • Formulating a Model
  • Solving the Model
  • Printing Results
• Advanced Commands
  • Feasibility Analysis
  • Sensitivities and dual variables
  • Substitutions
  • Sweeps
  • Composite Objectives
  • Signomial Programming
• Examples
  • iPython Notebook Examples
  • A Trivial GP
  • Maximizing the Volume of a Box
  • Water Tank
  • Simple Wing
• Glossary
  • The GPkit Package
  • Subpackages
  • Submodules
• Citing GPkit
• Acknowledgements
• Release Notes
  • Version 0.3
  • Version 0.2