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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... close to such a modus operandi by trial and error. Moreover, the mathematical model is useful in setting the limits of what is possible, a valuable tool in assessing the reliability of some medieval records. Example 2. The Plug-Flow ...
... close to 1 in comparison to the variance of the fluctuations, nothing very different will happen. If, however, (60 - 1)/or” is outside the interval between the lowest and highest values of F, V will not 1D(x) X d 1. * w - |-* : i-x ...
... close as we can to the locus T, but the trouble is that it goes off to infinity at low conversions and so is not practically attainable. This problem was tackled in a master's thesis by Blakemore and published as [29], using dynamic ...
... close proximity to one another, because the mind most easily takes in information from two related sources when they are close together. Coupled with discreet, but deliberate, didactic distortion,” this can pack in a lot of information ...
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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 |