Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical Modeling

A Chemical Engineer's Perspective

1st Edition - June 4, 1999

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  • Author: Rutherford Aris
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080511245

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Mathematical 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.

Key Features

  • Describes pitfalls as well as principles of mathematical modeling
  • Presents twenty examples of engineering problems
  • Features seventeen reprinted papers
  • Presents personal reflections on some of the great natural philosophers
  • Emphasizes modeling procedures that precede extensive calculations

Readership

Chemical engineers in industry and academia, including instructors teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in mathematical modeling, reaction engineering, and transport processes

Product details

  • No. of pages: 479
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 1999
  • Published: June 4, 1999
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080511245

About the Author

Rutherford Aris

Affiliations and Expertise

University of Minnesota, Bloomington, U.S.A.

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