Towards intelligent systems for boiler design

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 211, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 399-409

  Lu, S ^a  

^a Doosan Babcock Energy Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Boiler; Design; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms; Knowledge based systems; Modelling; Neural networks; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

DRUM CYLINDER; DRUM HEADS; RELATIVE VALVE APERTURE;

BOILERS;

EID: 0031360627     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0957650971537303     Document Type: Article

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