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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... Problem 31 Scaling 33 Example 7. The Dissolving Sphere (Reprise) 33 Example 9. The Spherical Catalyst Particle 34 Shape Factors 36 Example 10. Diffusion and First-Order Reaction 36 A Priori Estimates 39 Example 11. The Nonisothermal ...
... problems. In the evolution of this book the proposed prelude has become a postlude—an autobiographical appendix of acknowledgments with asides. This is the right place for it. What is autobiography if not the acknowledgment of the ...
... problem, say, the burning of a small particle. She might well get the mass and heat balances down but hesitate before getting them into dimensionless form. Either a direct reference to the Contents or by taking a route through the Index ...
... problem, cannot but be lumped, because, were they not, they would have to be treated as variables. *The didactic principle of reiteration is a sort of converse to Ockham's Razor and might be called Ior's Ears: “Could I have that again ...
... problem, in which there is no reaction, the tube is circular (radius R), and the flow is laminar (average velocity U). Also, we ignore the effect of molecular diffusion in the longitudinal direction and are concerned only with the ...
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 |