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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... effect of particle shape, the indexes, under “Shape Factor,” would give access to Chapter 2, Examples 10, p. 36. If the burning were of a reservoir of solid material, then the Subject Index to the Papers in the Bibliography entry ...
... effect of comparing the behavior for various, but still constant, values of cin might be. In this case, the answer is obvious because, the equations being linear, c is proportional to cin. If we take cin as the characteristic ...
... effect of variations of, say, temperature, which affects k but nothing else, this form is ideal, because k is present in Da but in no other parameter. We perform a quick computation of the conversion (%) and time to reach 99% of steady ...
... effect of some quantity is to be done, that quantity should appear in the numerator of one and only one of the dimensionless parameters. THE SIMPLEST DISTRIBUTED MODEL Example 2. The Tubular Reactor Suppose now that the reactor we have ...
... effect of molecular diffusion in the longitudinal direction and are concerned only with the effects of the lateral diffusion across the flow profile. Thus, we have 6clot + 2U(1 – r*)(0c/62) = D[0°c/ór” + (1/r)(0c/ðr)] (34) or, briefly ...
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 |