Mathematical Modeling: A Chemical Engineer's PerspectiveMathematical modeling is the art and craft of building a system of equations that is both sufficiently complex to do justice to physical reality and sufficiently simple to give real insight into the situation. Mathematical Modeling: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective provides an elementary introduction to the craft by one of the century's most distinguished practitioners. Though the book is written from a chemical engineering viewpoint, the principles and pitfalls are common to all mathematical modeling of physical systems. Seventeen of the author's frequently cited papers are reprinted to illustrate applications to convective diffusion, formal chemical kinetics, heat and mass transfer, and the philosophy of modeling. An essay of acknowledgments, asides, and footnotes captures personal reflections on academic life and personalities.
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... Amundson and the Department 445 Minneapolis, 1974–1996 447 Minnesota and Sabbaticals, 1978–1996 448 Bibliography Books 455 Edited Books 456 Chapters in Books Edited by Others 456 Journal Papers 456 INDEX OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND CO ...
... Amundson taught the graduate course in mathematics for chemical engineering, he always insisted that “all boundary conditions arise from nature.” He meant, I think, that a lot of simplification and imagination goes into the model itself ...
... Amundson proved it rigorously” in an elegant paper using isoperimetric inequalities and Steiner symmetrization. In treating shape factors, I have gone ahead of the purely preliminary manipulation of the model. But it is useful to know ...
... Amundson and Bilous introduced the phase plane to chemical engineering in 1955 using calculations done on an old analog calculator." They took the case of a first-order exothermic reaction and plotted phase planes for situations in ...
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Contents
MATTER | 105 |
MISCELLANEA | 417 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 455 |
INDEX OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND COAUTHORS | 467 |
SUBJECT INDEX TO THE PAPERS IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY | 469 |
INDEX | 473 |