Chaney Ganninger at the West Virgina University is using OpenSolver to help model accelerants used in arson cases. Amazing where optimisation ends up being helpful!
Check out Chaney’s thesis:
Refinement of a thermodynamic model to explain the weathering
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temperatures
at https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=13611&context=etd