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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... Temperature Wave 140 5. The Ultimate Form of a Kinematic Wave 144 References 146 8 Formal Kinetics D. Prolegomena to the Rational Analysis of Systems of Chemical Reactions 49 RUTHERFORD ARIS . Introduction 149 . The Representation of ...
... 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 computation of the conversion (%) and time to reach 99% of steady state (min), for U = 0, 6 = 12 ...
... temperature T. Let r = r(c., T) be the reaction rate in moles per unit volume per unit time, then for A, in the ... temperature. Again, it is important to realize that an equation for T cannot be written down immediately, but must be ...
... temperature is a function of the composition (see [A, D, F] and the introductions to papers under “Adiabatic” in the Index of Subjects in Publications.) This is the case also with the catalyst particle (see I, Ch. 2, and [81, 122] and ...
... temperature. To compare them, I expressed both in moles per unit volume. The notion of a temperature in moles per unit volume was not acceptable to the class. the radius and the velocity both decrease from their initial 28 CHAPTER 2 ...
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 |