Process modelling and simulation with finite element methods

✍ Scribed by William B. J. Zimmerman

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Series: Series on stability, vibration, and control of systems. Series A 15
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a systematic description and case studies of chemical engineering modelling and simulation based on the MATLAB/FEMLAB tools, in support of selected topics in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that require numerical solution of complex balance equations (ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, nonlinear equations, integro-differential equations). These systems arise naturally in analysis of transport phenomena, process systems, chemical reactions and chemical thermodynamics, and particle rate processes. Templates are given for modelling both state-of-the-art research topics (e.g. microfluidic networks, film drying, multiphase flow, population balance equations) and case studies of commonplace design calculations — mixed phase reactor design, heat transfer, flowsheet analysis of unit operations, flash distillations, etc.

The great strength of this book is that it makes modelling and simulating in the MATLAB/FEMLAB environment approachable to both the novice and the expert modeller.

✦ Subjects

Математика;Вычислительная математика;Метод конечных элементов;