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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... Stirred Tank 3 Review of the Simplest Example 8 The Simplest Distributed Model 9 Example 2. The Tubular Reactor 9 The General Balance Equations for Distributed Systems 10 Boundary Conditions 13 Example 3. The Danckwerts Boundary ...
... Stirred Tank Reactor 252 VV. W. FARR AND R. ARS Introduction 252 The System 254 Discussion I: Butterfly Points 261 Discussion II: Maximum Multiplicity 270 Conclusions 278 Notation 280 References 280 K. Autonomous Bifurcations of a ...
... tank and the effluent (the assumption of good mixing ensures the last two will be the same), and let the reaction be of the first order so that it proceeds at a rate kc, where k is a constant. The concentrations are in moles/ unit ...
... stirred tank. We should therefore be able to get the equations for the stirred tank as a limiting case. At this point, we should really work in dimensionless variables. # = z/L is a natural way of reducing the length and, because the ...
... stirred tank and communicating with it (Fig. 3 shows the arrangement). A is the crosssectional area of both reactors (Ae for the tubular reactor, P*, and A(1 - e) for the tank, C*"). Their common length is L, giving volumes of AeL and A ...
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 |