Design and economic investigation of shell and tube heat exchangers using Improved Intelligent Tuned Harmony Search algorithm

This study explores the thermal design of shell and tube heat exchangers by using Improved Intelligent Tuned Harmony Search (I-ITHS) algorithm. Intelligent Tuned Harmony Search (ITHS) is an upgraded version of harmony search algorithm which has an advantage of deciding intensification and diversific...

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Main Authors: Oguz Emrah Turgut, Mert Sinan Turgut, Mustafa Turhan Coban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-12-01
Series:Ain Shams Engineering Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447914000756