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Original Articles

Gas Injection in Steelmaking Vessels: Coupling a Fluid Dynamic Analysis with a Genetic Algorithms-Based Pareto-Optimality

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Pages 363-379 | Received 30 Mar 2004, Accepted 05 Jul 2004, Published online: 07 Feb 2007

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