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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... DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM THE PAPERS OF RUTHERFORD ARIS A SELECTION OF WHICH IS HERE REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCES, SOME HAVING BEEN MUCH SOUGHT AFTER & OTHERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ERRORS TO ...
... differential equations. Allusions may be made to difference, stochastic, difference-differential, and differential-algebraic equations, but no general theory will be presented for them. This book can be used in a number of different ...
... differential equations. I hope it is not idiotic, for I have tried to see beyond my own little world. It is idiosyncratic in the sense that it reflects my preferences and does not attempt to be systematic or comprehensive. It is ...
... differential equation that could be solved by quadrature, in which case Chap. 3, Example 7, p. 50 might be useful. If her system were nonisothermal, the index to the papers of the main bibliography, A, under “reaction, gas/solid” would ...
... differential Eq. (2) when the operating mode is that of the so-called steady-state in which qin and qout are kept at the same value q. Although the solution of the equation tells us that the volume is constant, it does not tell us what ...
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 |