10.34 Numerical Methods Applied to Chemical Engineering, Fall 2001
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Beers, Kenneth J.
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Numerical Methods Applied to Chemical Engineering
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Numerical methods for solving problems arising in heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, chemical reaction engineering, and molecular simulation. Topics: numerical linear algebra, solution of nonlinear algebraic equations and ordinary differential equations, solution of partial differential equations (e.g. Navier-Stokes), numerical methods in molecular simulation (dynamics, geometry optimization). All methods are presented within the context of chemical engineering problems. Familiarity with structured programming is assumed. From the course home page: Course Description This course focuses on the use of modern computational and mathematical techniques in chemical engineering. Starting from a discussion of linear systems as the basic computational unit in scientific computing, methods for solving sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, and differential-algebraic (DAE) systems are presented. Probability theory and its use in physical modeling is covered, as is the statistical analysis of data and parameter estimation. The finite difference and finite element techniques are presented for converting the partial differential equations obtained from transport phenomena to DAE systems. The use of these techniques will be demonstrated throughout the course in the MATLAB® computing environment.
Date issued
2001-12Other identifiers
10.34-Fall2001
local: 10.34
local: IMSCP-MD5-c404398a548a3614b5c0f2ed599ba63f
Keywords
Navier-Stokes, partial differential equations, nonlinear algebraic equations, numerical linear algebra