Heuristics guided optimization of a batch autoclave curing process

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-294

  Pillai, V ^a   Beris, A N ^a   Dhurjati, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCLAVES; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLDING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BATCH AUTOCLAVE CURING PROCESS; BRACHISTOCHRONE PROBLEM; DIMENSIONALITY; EXOTHERMICITY;

CURING;

EID: 0030106401     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-1354(95)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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