Product Description
Suitable for a first year graduate course, this textbook unites the applications of numerical mathematics and scientific computing to the practice of chemical engineering. Written in a pedagogic style, the book describes basic linear and nonlinear algebric systems all the way through to stochastic methods, Bayesian statistics and parameter estimation. These subjects are developed at a level of mathematics suitable for graduate engineering study without the exhaustiv… More >>
Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineering: Applications in MATLAB
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#1 by clustro on April 9, 2010 - 11:30 am
Its a good book. There is a little too much focus on proof and derivation, but you can still just skim those parts and study the algorithms intently, and you will be just fine.
Very broad in scope; covers multiple linear equations, multiple nonlinear equations, optimization w/ gradient search and stochastic search, and monte-carlo methods.
The section on stochastic differential equations is somewhat lacking though.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Kevin P. Murphy on April 9, 2010 - 12:43 pm
This is extremely well written, combining both intuition and rigour. It has good accompanying matlab demos. It should be of interest to many people who use numerical methods (integration, optimization, eigen analysis, etc), not just chemical engineers.
Rating: 5 / 5