An equation analyser for process models

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 571-585

  Morton, W ^a   Collingwood, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Process modelling; degrees of freedom

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EQUATION ANALYZER; JACOBIAN ELEMENTS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0032042808     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0098-1354(97)00231-7     Document Type: Article

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