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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... interesting things with logistical models and we have worked together on the defense strategy that might have been used by archers [250] and the use of the battering ram [281]. In the latter problem, we regarded the ram as a bifilar ...
... interesting questions concerning uniqueness and stability arise [73]. Example 15. Diffusion and Reaction in a Slab The special form of second-order equation in which the right-hand side is a function only of the dependent variable also ...
... interesting, but when I came to track the phase planes, it became clear that there was more to it than I had realized. In Fig. 19, the ordinate is extent of reaction and the abscissa the temperature, and we are trying to stabilize the ...
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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 |