Fortran Programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis, and Simulation
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Fortran Programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis, and Simulation

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eBook - ePub

Fortran Programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis, and Simulation

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This book gives engineers the fundamental theories, equations, and computer programs (including source codes) that provide a ready way to analyze and solve a wide range of process engineering problems.

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CHAPTER 1

Numerical Computation

INTRODUCTION

Engineers, technologists, and scientists have employed numerical methods of analysis to solve a wide range of steady and transient problems. The fundamentals are essential in the basic operations of curve fitting, approximation, interpolation, numerical solutions of simultaneous linear and nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation and integration. These requirements are greater when new processes are designed. Engineers also need theoretical information and data from published works to construct mathematical models that simulate new processes. Developing mathematical models with personal computers sometimes involves experimental programs to obtain the required information for the models. Developing an experimental program is strongly dependent on the knowledge of the process with theory, where the whole modification can be produced by some form of mathematical models or regression analyses. Figure 1-1 shows the relationship between mathematical modeling and regression analysis.
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Figure 1-1 Mathematical modeling and regression analysis. By permission, A. Constantinides, Applied Numerical Methods With Personal Computers, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1987. McGraw-Hill
Texts [1–5] with computer programs and sometimes with supplied software are now available for scientists and engineers. They must fit a function or functions to measure data that fluctuate, which result from random error of measurement. If the number of data points equals the order of the polynomial plus one, we can exactly fit a polynomial to the data points. Fitting a function to a set of data requires more data than the order of a polynomial. The accuracy of the fitted curve depends on the large numb...

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. DEDICATION
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Numerical Computation
  9. Chapter 2: Physical Property of Liquids and Gases
  10. Chapter 3: Fluid Flow
  11. Chapter 4: Equipment Sizing
  12. Chapter 5: Instrument Sizing
  13. Chapter 6: Compressors
  14. Chapter 7: Mass Transfer
  15. Chapter 8: Heat Transfer
  16. Chapter 9: Engineering Economics
  17. Chapter 10: The International System of Units (SI) and Conversion Tables
  18. Bibliography
  19. Appendix A
  20. Appendix B
  21. Appendix C
  22. Index