Problem Solving in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering with POLYMATH™, Excel, and MATLAB®, Second Edition, is a valuable resource and companion that integrates the use of numerical problem solving in the three most widely used software packages: POLYMATH, Microsoft Excel, and MATLAB. Recently developed POLYMATH capabilities allow the automatic creation of Excel spreadsheets and the generation of MATLAB code for problem solutions. Students and professional engineers will appreciate the ease with which problems can be entered into POLYMATH and then solved independently in all three software packages, while taking full advantage of the unique capabilities within each package. The book includes more than 170 problems requiring numerical solutions.

This greatly expanded and revised second edition includes new chapters on getting started with and using Excel and MATLAB. It also places special emphasis on biochemical engineering with a major chapter on the subject and with the integration of biochemical problems throughout the book.

General Topics and Subject Areas, Organized by Chapter

• Introduction to Problem Solving with Mathematical Software Packages

• Basic Principles and Calculations

• Regression and Correlation of Data

• Introduction to Problem Solving with Excel

• Introduction to Problem Solving with MATLAB

• Advanced Problem-Solving Techniques

• Thermodynamics

• Fluid Mechanics

• Heat Transfer

• Mass Transfer

• Chemical Reaction Engineering

• Phase Equilibrium and Distillation

• Process Dynamics and Control

• Biochemical Engineering

Practical Aspects of Problem-Solving Capabilities

• Simultaneous Linear Equations

• Simultaneous Nonlinear Equations

• Linear, Multiple Linear, and Nonlinear Regressions with Statistical Analyses

• Partial Differential Equations (Using the Numerical Method of Lines)

• Curve Fitting by Polynomials with Statistical Analysis

• Simultaneous Ordinary Differential Equations (Including Problems Involving Stiff Systems, Differential-Algebraic Equations, and Parameter Estimation in Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations)

The Book's Web Site (http://www.problemsolvingbook.com)

• Provides solved and partially solved problem files for all three software packages, plus additional materials

• Describes discounted purchase options for educational version of POLYMATH available to book purchasers

• Includes detailed, selected problem solutions in Maple™, Mathcad®, and Mathematica™

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Good source of ChE problems! - 2009-07-07
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From the perspective of a ChE instructor, I found this textbook a very good source of homework and mid terms problems. If you are teaching a numerical method course or one where modeling and simulation is the focus, this is a textbook for your personal library. The problems range from linear, non-linear equations, ODE to PDE equations that can be solve using the "method of lines". You can find a nice range of topics, including bioreactors, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, chemical reactions, process control, etc. Partial solutions are given to most of them. From the book's Web Site you can download many solved problem files in MATLAB, EXCEL AND POLYMATH; unfortunately, students also can download them. The Appendix includes a nice classification of all the problems, according to their application area (thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, mass transfer, etc.).

If you are hoping to learn programming, in particular MATLAB, this is not the textbook. MATLAB is used in almost all the chapters; unfortunately, the "method of lines" solutions are in POLYMATH.

Last, but not least; the price of the textbook is just perfect ($47) considering all the time you can save with this source of solved problems.

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