Applied Numerical Methods for Food and Agricultural Engineers

by Chandra; Prabir K.

• ISBN13: 9780849324543
• ISBN10: 0849324548
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351465946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-10-25
• Publisher: CRC Press
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Summary

Written from the expertise of an agricultural engineering background, this exciting new book presents the most useful numerical methods and their complete program listings.

Table of Contents

Units and Dimensions

A Concise Treatise on FORTRAN

Numerical Methods

Numerical Differentation

Real Roots of Algebraic Equations

Numerical Integration

Solution of Linear Algebraic Equations

Least Squares Approximation

Solution of Initial and Boundary Value Problems

Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Errors

Finite Element Methods

Dimensional Analysis

Methods of Dimensional Analysis

Model Testing for Scaling Up

Applications

Air Psychrometrics

Tubular Heat Exchanger with Annular Fin

Heat Transfer Coefficient in Puffing of Rice

Residence Time of a Particle Inside a Cyclone Seperator

Drying Simulation using Diffusion and Thin-Layer Concepts

Appendices

Index