Numerical treatment of engineering problems with uncertainties. The fuzzy set approach and its application to the heat exchanger problem

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue 1-5, 2011, Pages 115-148

  Babuška, Ivo ^a   Silva, Renato S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Heat exchanger; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; DOUBLE-PIPE HEAT EXCHANGERS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; EXCHANGER PROBLEMS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODEL-BASED PREDICTION; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PARAMETER VALUES; SPECIFICATION SHEETS; SYSTEMS PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY;

FORECASTING; FUZZY SETS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MODELS; THERMOANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958722683     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3012     Document Type: Article

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