Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Applied Mathematics) by Advisor "Hearne, John W."
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Developing an integrated decision support system for an oil refinery.
(1998)This thesis considers the problem of residue upgrading operations in an oil refinery. Visbreaking is a residue-upgrading process that improves profitability of a refinery. The economics of converting the heavy residue ... -
Modelling the physical dynamics of estuaries for management purposes.
(1996)South African estuaries are characterised by highly variable inflows owing to the semi-arid nature of the land mass which they drain. The interaction of this variability with that of the marine environment (seasonality, ...