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Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
(805) 893-2821

 


dmell@engineering.ucsb.edu

 

My research focuses on methods that utilize some type of dynamic process model as a key part of the control algorithm. Thus the emphasis is on methods that require significantly more insight into how the process operates rather than on purely mathematical developments. Process modeling information often is available from theoretical knowledge (first principles), from physical insight, or from on-line operating data. In the last case, reduction to a useful mathematical form (so-called process identification) is required.

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