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Global Homotopy Continuation And Stability Analysis: Optimal Application To Chemical Engineering Design, David Anthony Harney
Global Homotopy Continuation And Stability Analysis: Optimal Application To Chemical Engineering Design, David Anthony Harney
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"The design of chemical engineering process equipment routinely necessitates the solution of large systems of non-linear equations. The processing speed of standard desktop computers have allowed for equation-oriented process simulators to become commercially viable. For a fully equation-oriented simulator to be competitive with standard iterative solvers, a robust and reliable non-linear equation solver is required and standard Newton methods fail to provide the necessary reliability.
Homotopy continuation methods have been proposed as a way to greatly expand the domain of convergence of the process simulator's equation solving algorithm. This research expands upon existing homotopy continuation algorithms, investigates bounding algorithms, corrector …