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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... Analysis of Systems of Chemical Reactions 49 RUTHERFORD ARIS . Introduction 149 . The Representation of Molecular Species and Reactions between Them 150 . The Representation and Calculus of Composition Changes 154 . Equilibrium in ...
... Analysis 401 Uses of the Word Beautiful 401 Aside on Adventitious Beauty 402 Understanding and Appreciation 402 Birkhoff's AEsthetic Measure 403 Mathematical Beauty 404 Mathematical Modelling 406 Dimensionless Parameters 407 A Model of ...
... Analysis and applications. A.I.Ch.E.J. 41,2029–2039 (1995). Westerterp, K. R., V. V. Dil'man, A. H. Benneker, and A. E. Kronberg. Wave concept in the theory of hydrodynamical dispersion—A Maxwellian type approach. Trans. I. Ch. E. 74, A ...
... analysis of some other entity. This is sometimes represented as a commutative diagram in which the state of the nonmathematical (let us call it physical, for definiteness) system, S, is mirrored in the model, X, by the modeling ...
... analysis, scaling, and orders of magnitude. Chem. Eng. Sci. 53, 1461–1469 (1998). Mathematical Modeling: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective 25 phase of the history of dimensional analysis begins with Rayleigh's Chapter 2. Manipulation of ...
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 |