In this blog I present and discuss a tool to calculate metallurgical slag liquid viscosity. This tool has been developed using the Microsoft Silverlight technology, which will also be discussed in a bit more detail than was done in the previous post. The calculations have also been developed as user defined functions compiled into a Microsoft Excel add-in, available on request.
Read MoreIn this blog I will discuss Kohonen self organizing maps (SOM), and how it could be applied to process engineering problems. I will also illustrate its use with a typical example, and then with a process engineering example. For this application I have used the Microsoft .NET framework, writing code in C# with the examples having Silverlight frontends. This blog will be focussed on the concept and application, rather the details on exactly how it is programmed. To follow first is short overview of what SOM’s are, a broader explanation can be found on Wikipedia.
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