Complex domain distillation calculations

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-111

  Taylor, R ^a   Achuthan, K ^a   Lucia, A ^a  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS-MATHEMATICAL; COMPLEX DOMAIN; DISTILLATION;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

COMPLEX DOMAIN; FIXED-POINT METHODS; NEWTON'S METHOD; THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 0029657222     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-1354(95)90883-R     Document Type: Article

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