Simultaneous Heat Transfer Search (SHTS) is a single-objective optimization technique designed for unconstrained problems. Unlike traditional heat transfer search, which utilizes only one heat transfer mode per iteration, SHTS divides the population and simultaneously applies all three heat transfer modes. The main differences between SHTS and HTS can be found in the following references:

  1. Synchronous Heat Transfer Search for Costly Numerical Optimization, 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2016, pp. 2982-2988; IEEE Paper Link
  2. Simultaneous Heat Transfer Search for Single-Objective Real Parameter Optimization Problems, TENCON 2016 IEEE, pp. 2138-2141, 2016; IEEE Paper Link

Note: If N is the population size, exactly N function evaluations are required during a complete iteration of SHTS. For T iterations, the total number of function evaluations will be NT.