Mathematical Modeling

by Aris

• ISBN13: 9780126045857
• ISBN10: 0126045852
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-11
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Method and Manner

What Is Mathematical Modeling?

Manipulation of Models

Solving the Equations

Presenting the Model and Its Behavior

Maxims for Modelers

Style

Matter

Dispersion in Flow

Formal Kinetics

Statics and Dynamics of Chemical Reactors

Mass and Heat Transfer

Modeling in General

Miscellanea

Acknowledgments: An Autobiographical Appendix with Asides

Aside on Formal Chemical Kinetics, 1963-1995

Bibliography

Index of Graduate Students and Co-Authors

Subject Index to the Papers in the Bibliography

Index

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