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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... Solution in Linear Systems 40 Example 12. The Bubbling Fluidized Bed 40 3 Solving the Equations Getting a Feel for the Solution 45 Example 13. Two Populations Growing in a Chemostat Competing for a Common Nutrient 45 Special Forms 49 ...
... SOLUTION, AND PRESENTATION OF ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM THE PAPERS OF RUTHERFORD ARIS A SELECTION OF WHICH IS HERE REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCES, SOME HAVING BEEN MUCH ...
... solution of particular 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 ...
... solution of the differential Eq. (2) when the operating mode is that of the so-called steady-state in which qin and qout are kept at the same value q. Although the solution of the equation tells us that the volume is constant, it does ...
... solution could be almost written down at sight. But this will seldom be the case, and it will pay to work the equations into the most transparent form possible. Consider first the single equation, Eq.(5) and ask what it might be used ...
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 |