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CAD
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
ESOLID - a system for exact boundary evaluation
We present a system, ESOLID, that performs exact boundary evaluation of low-degree curved solids in reasonable amounts of time. ESOLID performs accurate Boolean operations using e...
John Keyser, Tim Culver, Mark Foskey, Shankar Kris...
CANDC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Cycling in ecological networks: Finn's index revisited
A chief cybernetic feature of natural living systems is the recycling of nutrients, which tends to enhance stability and is one of the principal causes of ecosystem complexity. In...
Stefano Allesina, Robert E. Ulanowicz
CCE
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Thermodynamic uncertainties in batch processing and optimal control
Batch distillation is an important separation process for small-scale production especially in pharmaceutical, specialty chemical and biochemical industries. Although batch distil...
Saadet Ulas, Urmila M. Diwekar
CCE
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Module-oriented automatic differentiation in chemical process systems optimization
It is common that external procedures are incorporated into an equation-oriented model when modeling complex chemical process systems. The so-obtained models are called composite ...
Xiang Li, Zhijiang Shao, Jixin Qian
CCE
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic maximum principle for optimal control under uncertainty
Optimal control problems involve the difficult task of determining time-varying profiles through dynamic optimization. Such problems become even more complex in practical situatio...
Vicente Rico-Ramírez, Urmila M. Diwekar