Singular Arcs Occurring in Optimal Electric Steel Refining

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn AC-15, Issue 5, 1970, Pages 549-556

  Woodside, Charles M ^a   Pagurek, B ^a   Pauksens, John ^a   Ogale, Arun N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC HEATING, CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; STEEL MAKING, ELECTRIC FURNACE PROCESS;

AUTOMATIC CONTROL--OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0014861060     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: 15582523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.1970.1099566     Document Type: Article

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