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UsingExcel:Nomenclature,macroandtips

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Nomenclature

Chapter1:

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Ineachfileassociatedtoalltheexamplesofthebook,asimplecolourcodehasbeenusedtohelpusertodifferentiatedata

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andresults.Thefilesarenotblocked,norpasswordprotected,soallcellscanbechanged.Nevertheless,onlysomecells

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areusedasinputcellstomakeallcalculations.Theinputcellsarewritteninblueandthecalculatedcellsinblack.
Othercellsareusedtoconductiterativeproceduretoreachaspecificresultoroptimizeaspecificobjectivefunction.Inthis
case,thechangingcelliswritteninred,whiletheresultingcelliswritteninbrown.Inmostofthecases,anarrowwillbe

Chapter2:

FromFundamentalto
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placedinbetweencellstoshowtherelationshipfrominputtooutput.

Macro
Most of calculations in all the examples use macro commands. This technique is helpful and powerful. Reading of the
worksheetisclearerandeditioniseasier.Supposeyouwanttocalculatey=ax 2+b.Thecommontechniqueistodefinea
andbintwocell,sayC3=aandD3=b.Inothercellyougivethevalueofx,sayE5=x,thenyoucancalculatethevalueofy

Chapter3:

incellE6as=C3*E5*E5+D3.

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YoucandothesamecreatingaMacro(menuTools>Macro>VisualBasicEditor)andwritingasmallfunctioninaModule.

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Ourcorrespondingexamplewillbe:
PublicFunctionMySample(xAsDouble,aAsDouble,bAsDouble)AsDouble
MySample=a*x*x+b

Chapter4:

EndFunction

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Intheworksheet,thecalculationcanbemade,forexampleincellE7writing
=MySample(E5,C3,D3).
An important feature of macro commands is the fact that you can make a complex calculation using logical tools. A very
simpleexamplecanbeconstructedcalculatingthefunctionsin(x)/x.Thisequationcannotbecalculatednumericallyinx=0,

Chapter5:

neverthelessitiswellknownthattheresulttendsto1.Thispropertycanbeusedinourfunction:

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PublicFunctionSinx_x(xAsDouble)AsDouble
Ifx=0Then<
Sinx_x=1#
Else
Sinx_x=Sin(x)/x

Chapter6:

EndIf
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Tips
Animportanttoolusedintheseexamplesisthe"GoalSeek"function,locatedinthe"Tools"menu.Thisspecialfeatureis

Chapter7:

used to solve problems of the kind f(x)=b. b is the value of the goal (defined by the coordinate of the cell as B15 for

Threephasesreactionsin

example,writteninbrown in our nomenclature) and x is the value to be changed (defined by the coordinate of the cell as

Clausstailgastreatment

D21forexample,inredasmentionedabove).

(CLAUSPOL)
It is convenient to install the "Solver" addin to your Excel. This sophisticated tool, allows multivariable optimization (or
solution)usedinfittingorregressionforexample.
Chapter10:

Some operations can be made on vectors or matrix and not only one cell. For example the sum of the she product of two

Complexpolarmolecular

arrayscanbewritteneasilyas:

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=SUM(B4:B10*C4:C10)

separation(ESTERFIPH)

.Donotforgettopresssimultaneouslythethreekeys"Shift""Control"and"Enter"tospecifythatthiscelliscalculatedasa
vectorcell.

Thesesamplescanbeseeninfile(xls):

http://books.ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr/ebooks/thermodynamics/help/help.html

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