Optimization of the geometry of a double-path spray chamber for inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry by computer simulation and an evolutionary strategy

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1807-1819

  Schaldach, Gerhard ^a   Razilov, Ilya ^a   Berndt, Harald ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN ISAS E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Double path spray chamber; Evolutionary algorithm; ICP spectrometry; Optimization strategy by evolutionary algorithm; Scott chamber

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTROMETRY;

SPRAY CHAMBERS;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

EID: 0142124441     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(03)00160-5     Document Type: Article

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