A Generic Global Optimization Algorithm for the Chemical and Phase Equilibrium Problem

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-351

  Mckinnon, Ken ^a   Mongeau, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical and phase equilibrium; Convexity; Gibbs free energy; Global optimization; Non convex optimization; Tangent plane criterion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHEMICAL AND PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; CONVEXITY; NON-CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; TANGENT-PLANE CRITERION;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0001349393     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008298110010     Document Type: Article

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