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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... structure on a twist of it; as the poem, so the mathematical model. Nevertheless there is the shared knowledge of craftsmen who “have held reality down fluttering to a bench," the common search for the most telling imagery,” the same ...
... structure off as the product of two factors, one decreasing with the increase of conversion and the other increasing. Equations (226) and (227) are shown in Fig. 14 as markers at the extrema of f(U), which are shown as functions of U ...
... structure of a shape factor Example 18. Shape Factors for Particles in Packed Bed Exchange In Reprint C in Chapter 7, the behavior of a tracer pulse in a stream flowing through a packed bed and exchanging heat or matter with the ...
... structure of the optimal policy, but we were wrong (in [29]) in assuming that the bang-bang transition occurred on the full cooling path JQH. It was only later (in [43]) that the correct transition point was found and that was because ...
... structure of the diagrams was explored by other workers" who added many more varieties of phase plane. It should "A ... structure of the CSTR parameter space. A.I.Ch.E.J. 27, 514 (1981); and T. T. Tsotsis, and V. K. Kwong. Fine structure ...
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 |