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Applications in Heat Transfer

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New Optimization Techniques in Engineering

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In this chapter, we shall discuss two successful applications of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Differential Evolution (DE) on heat transfer problems: (1) Estimation of heat transfer parameters in trickle bed reactors, and (2) Optimal design of shelland-tube heat exchanger.

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Babu, B.V. (2004). Applications in Heat Transfer. In: New Optimization Techniques in Engineering. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39930-8_9

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