A Multifrontal Approach for Simulating Equilibrium-Stage Processes on Supercomputers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 144-151

  Mallya, Jayarama U ^a   Stadtherr, Mark A ^b  

^a CRAY INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EQUILIBRIUM STAGE PROCESSING; FRONTAL ALGORITHMS; KERNELS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PIVOT SEARCHING;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 0030734197     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9604076     Document Type: Article

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