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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... become a postlude—an autobiographical appendix of acknowledgments with asides. This is the right place for it. What is autobiography if not the acknowledgment of the people who have been influential in one's career? A publisher is ...
... become, the basic principles that I have tried to elaborate are still needed. The use of the indefinite article in the title and of “Engineer's” rather than “Engineering” is meant to indicate to the reader that this book is, in some ...
... become B, but we must still be able to account for it. Coming in with the feed stream there are qincin moles/unit time; leaving, unreacted, in the product stream there are qc moles/unit time. When the volume is V, the rate of ...
... becomes irrelevant. There is only one parameter, and the solution that "The dimensionless groups of engineering are commonly designated by two letters, an upper-case letter followed by a lower-case letter. They are the only exceptions ...
... becomes more and more completely mixed until in the limit it is a stirred tank. We should therefore be able to get the equations for the stirred tank as a limiting case. At this point, we should really work in dimensionless variables ...
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 |