Simple phase stability-testing algorithm in the reduction method

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2909-2920

  Hoteit, Hussein ^a   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^a,b  

^a RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs free energy; Newton method; Phase stability; Reduction method; Tangent plane distance

Indexed keywords

NEWTON METHOD; PHASE STABILITY; REDUCTION METHOD; TANGENT PLANE DISTANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 33746874894     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10908     Document Type: Article

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