Numerical Techniques for Chemical Engineering: Numerical Method in Chemical Engineering

Numerical Methods for Chemical EngineeringSuitable for a first-year graduate course, this textbook unites the applications of numericalmathematics and scientific computing to the practice of chemical engineering. Written ina pedagogic style, the book describes basic linear and nonlinear algebraic systems all theway through to stochastic methods, Bayesian statistics, and parameter estimation. Thesesubjects are developed at a nominal level of theoretical mathematics suitable for graduateengineers. The implementation of numerical methods in M®is integrated withineach chapter and numerous examples in chemical engineering are provided, together with alibrary of corresponding M programs. Although the applications focus on chemicalengineering,thetreatmentofthetopicsshouldalsobeofinteresttonon-chemicalengineersand other applied scientists that work with scientific computing. This book will provide thegraduate student with the essential tools required by industry and research alike.Supplementary material includes solutions to homework problems set in the text,M programs and tutorial, lecture slides, and complicated derivations for the moreadvanced reader. These are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521859714.K J B has been Assistant Professor at MIT since 2000. He has taught exten-sively across the engineering discipline at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This book is a result of the successful course the author devised at MIT for numerical methodsapplied to chemical engineering