Visual Basics computer simulation package for thermal process calculations

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 603-613

  Chen, C R ^a   Ramaswamy, H S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Modeling; Retort; Thermal processing; Visual Basic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

THERMAL PROCESSING; VISUAL BASIC;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33947425912     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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