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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... function approach. Since this is an index of the Bibliography, he finds that these papers [56–58] are the work of Denn (who, after the manner of the first rank of Ph.D. students, took a simple idea I had adumbrated, and soon ran ahead ...
... function of degree one, the second (volume) of degree zero. Thus in the simple example used in Example 1, we did not make our balance on the concentration, moles per unit volume = c, but on the amount, moles = Vc. A function, f(x1, x2 ...
... function of degree zero, and this implies (by a well-known result attributed to Euler, quoted previously) that 2, c;(0hp/8c) = 0. (72) Thus, a potentially messy term vanishes. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FORMING THE MODEL We have now had ...
... function best in different regions of parameter space. [See J (pp. 18–22) for a further discussion of this point.] *J. M. Smith. Models in Ecology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, U.K., 1974. The subject of the value of ...
... functions of Da for the homotopic family R*. * V. Balakotaiah has pointed out that T = (2/Pe) - (2/Pe*)(1 - exp(-Pe)) ... functions of Da for five reactors. O 4 8 12 16 20 - FIGURE 7 Exit concentrations as functions of Da for. GENERAL ...
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 |