Analysis of Mine Ventilation Network Based on Harmony Search

Based on the air distribution request of the mine ventilation network, carries on the optimized computation to the mine ventilation system network, to find the global optimal solution for a mine ventilation network under given network topology and airway characteristics. The harmony search algorithm was used to find the global optimal solution of the network. An improved harmony search through proper tuning these parameters was presented. The simulation results show that the method outperforms the conventional nonlinear programming approach and genetic algorithm whether from the viewpoint of the number of iterations required to find the optimum solutions or from the final solutions obtained.