Another Way to Solve Complex Chemical Equilibria

Daniel P. Heyman
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Operations Research, 1990, vol. 38, issue 2, 355-358

Abstract: T. W. Wall, D. Greening and R. E. D. Woolsey produced a geometric programming based technique for solving the system of nonlinear equations that arise from the kinetic approach to finding the composition of a chemical system at equilibrium. I argue that one should consider using nonlinear programming to solve these equations. This approach is illustrated by solving the example given by Wall, Greening and Woolsey. A pencil and paper solution to that problem is also given.

Keywords: mathematics; systems solutions: nonlinear programming for solving simultaneous equations; programming; nonlinear; applications: solving simultaneous equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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