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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... university that shall be nameless. But, if this fate is to be avoided, some explanation of the book's unusual composition is necessary. Let me note first, however, that I am concerned with models consisting of ordinary and partial ...
... University of Minnesota have set a standard of excellence that, over forty years, has been as stimulating as it has been exacting. Outwith the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science I have, and have had, many friends ...
... University Press, 1997), are specifically directed at the chemical engineer. What we shall try to do, however, is to explore some of the ad hoc methods that take advantage of peculiar features of particular problems and those that give ...
... University Press, 1997. "This is not far-fetched, for Adler of Case Western Reserve University did use this method in studies of dispersion in helical tubes. "I do not say real life, nor do I call the extrauniversity world the real ...
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 |