Spline method for solving continuous batch grinding and similarity equations

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1433-1440

  Everson, R C ^a   Eyre, D ^a   Campbell, Q P ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cubic splines; Ore bodies; Spline galerkin method

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GOLD; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BREAKAGE FUNCTION; CONTINUOUS BATCH GRINDING EQUATION; SIMILARITY EQUATION; SPLINE GALERKIN METHOD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0031221501     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(97)88492-X     Document Type: Article

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