Smoothing Monte Carlo exchange factors through constrained maximum likelihood estimation

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1124-1128

  Daun, K J ^a,b   Morton, D P ^a   Howell, J R ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constrained maximum likelihood estimation; Exchange factor; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONSTRAINED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; EXCHANGE FACTOR; SMOOTHING;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

HEAT TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

EID: 30444442319     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2035111     Document Type: Article

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