Solver Sources

Definition 2 is phrased in terms of knowledge-based systems rather than expert systems. No reference is made to expert human problem solvers. Definition 2 captures the sense that the representation and manipulation of knowledge is the source of such a system s power, whether or not that knowledge is dkecdy eHcited from a human expert. 

Select the Show Iteration Results box, click OK in the Solver Options dialog, then click Solve on the Solver Parameter dialog. This causes the simplex solver to stop after each iteration. Because an initial feasible basis is not provided, the simplex method begins with an infeasible solution in phase 1 and proceeds to reduce the sum of infeasibilities sinf in Equation (7.40) as described in Section 7.3. Observe this by selecting Continue after each iteration. The first feasible solution found is shown in Figure 7.6. It has a cost of 3210, with most shipments made from the cheapest source, but with other sources used when the cheapest one runs out of supply. Can you see a way to improve this solution ... 

ODE solver. Relative to non-stiff ODE solvers, stiff ODE solvers typically use implicit methods, which require the numerical inversion of an Ns x Ns Jacobian matrix, and thus are considerably more expensive. In a transported PDF simulation lasting T time units, the composition variables must be updated /Vsm, = T/At 106 times for each notional particle. Since the number of notional particles will be of the order of A p 106, the total number of times that (6.245) must be solved during a transported PDF simulation can be as high as A p x A sim 1012. Thus, the computational cost associated with treating the chemical source term becomes the critical issue when dealing with detailed chemistry. 

Fractional time stepping is widely used in reacting-flow simulations (Boris and Oran 2000) in order to isolate terms in the transport equations so that they can be treated with the most efficient numerical methods. For non-premixed reactions, the fractional-time-stepping approach will yield acceptable accuracy if A t r . Note that since the exact solution to the mixing step is known (see (6.248)), the stiff ODE solver is only needed for (6.249), which, because it can be solved independently for each notional particle, is uncoupled. This fact can be exploited to treat the chemical source term efficiently using chemical lookup tables. 

It is also possible to use the information which has been stored to write programs for other tasks. A useful one, for example, keeps track of the stoichiometry (i.e. total atom counts) of the system. For a closed system, stoichiometry should be automatically maintained by linear predictor-corrector solvers, and the stoichiometry program provides a diagnostic of numerical errors (and others) which have accumulated. In other than closed systems, it gives an independent check on the sources and sinks which are being modeled. 

Develop two method-of-lines simulations to solve this problem. In the first, formulate the problem as standard-form ordinary differential equations, y7 = ff(f, y). In the second, formulate the problem in differential-algebraic (DAE) form, 0 = g(t, y, y ). Standard-form stiff, ordinary-differential-equation (ODE) solvers are readily avalaible. DAE solvers are less readily available, but Dassl is a good choice. The Fortran source code for Dassl is available at http //wwwjietlib.org. 

After acquiring the FORTRAN source code and documentation for Dassl (or other differential-algebraic solver) from www.netlib.org, write a simulation program to solve this problem. 

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Matrix A is a 3N x 3N dense matrix. For a small number of unknowns, direct solvers are practical, especially in the case of multiple sources. One can use different types of iterative methods, discussed in Chapter 4, for the solution of this problem. However, if N is large, the storage of A is extremely memory consuming, not to mention the complexity of direct matrix inversion. 

Chemical engineers do much of the ongoing fuel-cell research. There are many careers open to chemical engineers. They can work to find alternative, renewable fuel sources, to design new recyclable materials, and to devise new recycling methods. These scientists combine knowledge of chemistry, physics, and mathematics to link laboratory chemistry with its industrial applications. As with any scientist they also must be good problem solvers. 

Also provided by the finite element solver is the source term SQ in the energy balance, eqn. (6). Except within the H2 release zone, the volumetric heat flux corresponds to heat losses by Joule effect in the conducting materials. In zone , the heat dissipated by the irreversible interfacial processes is computed instead. 

For unsteady flows the system of non-linear equations are linearized in the iteration process within each time step, since all the solvers are limited to linear systems. The iterative process is thus performed on two different levels. The solver iterations are performed on provisional linear systems with fixed coefficients and source terms until convergence. Then, the system coefficients and sources are updated based on the last provisional solution and a new linearized system is solved. This process is continued until the non-linear system is converged, meaning that two subsequent linear systems give the same solution within the accuracy of a prescribed criterion. A standard notation used for the different iterations within one time step is that the coefficient and source matrices are updated in the outer iterations, whereas the inner iterations are performed on provisionally linear systems with fixed coefficients. On each outer iteration, the equations solved are on the form ... 

As described in Chapter 7, the source term can be treated using QBMM, where the weights and abscissas are computed from the multivariate moments. It will thus be necessary to design a realizable ODE solver for use with the source term in Eq. (B.l). In the remainder of this appendix, we assume that such an ODE solver exists, and thus we focus our attention on the spatial-transport solver. Nevertheless, the reader should consult Yuan Fox (2011) for details on how to use the CQMOM with multiple permutations to evaluate the source term in a statistically consistent manner. Briefly, when using the CQMOM... 

This brings us to a final comment it is very easy to modify the non-linear least squares to include weighting, since the user determines the residuals. We can include any weighting factors we want in our column with residuals, thereby converting Solver to a weighted non-linear least-squares optimizer. The important part is to include the proper weighting. For that we need to know what is (are) the major source(s) of the experimental uncertainty. And therein lies the problem we are often too much in a hurry to find out where the experimental uncertainty comes from. Unfortunately, without that knowledge, we cannot expect to get reliable answers, no matter how sophisticated the software used. 

Statistics is an invaluable tool, though one that has no intelligence of its own. It is fast and does to perfection and almost any desired accuracy what it is designed for and instructed to do, but it does not think. Apply it with caution. Useful sources are the books by Box et al. [48], Draper and Smith [49], Cook and Weisberg [50], Chatterjee et al. [51], and DeCoursey [52] and the programs Solver [53] and SYSTAT [54],... 

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