Case studies of computer-aided design sensitivity to thermodynamic data and models

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2998-3006

  Xin, Y ^a   Whiting, W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EQUAL PROBABILITY SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MODEL; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; PROCESS CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034254120     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990617t     Document Type: Article

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