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COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to system design ' Regression analysis and curve fitting ' modeling of thermal equipment (very brief) ' system simulation (successive substitution ' Newton ' Raphson method) ' examples ' economic analysis ' optimization ' Lagrange multipliers, search methods, linear programming, geometric programming' New generation optimization techniques ' simulated annealing, Genetic Algorithms, Bayesian statistics.
Examples applied to heat transfer problems and energy systems such as gas and steam power plants, refrigeration systems, heat pumps and so on.
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