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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... parameter, and the solution that "The dimensionless groups of engineering are commonly designated by two letters, an upper-case letter followed by a lower-case letter. They are the only exceptions to the rule that a single quantity ...
... parameter. If we want to make a parametric study of the 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 ...
... parameter system and distributed parameter system are enough “to frighten children in their beds” as Housman might have put it (T. Stoppard, The Invention of Love, in Act II, where Pollard and Housman are discussing Postgate's edition ...
... parameter is something my friends have learned to endure with a grace for which I am thankful. Because it is to be found in the papers here reproduced [277 = P, 308 = Q], as well as in others [J', K'], it will only be mentioned in ...
... 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 mathematical modeling in nonscientific ...
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 |