A Downhill Simplex method for computation of interfacial heat transfer coefficients in alloy casting

Inverse Problems in Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 409-424

  Pohanka, Michal ^a   Woodbury, Keith A ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatically generated mesh; Casting; Downhill simplex; Enthalpy; Interfacial heat transfer coefficient; Inverse heat transfer; Phase change

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CASTING; ENTHALPY; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLIDIFICATION;

THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE (TCR);

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 0141565111     PISSN: 10682767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1068276031000109899     Document Type: Article

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