Mathematical Modeling

Aris R.0-12-604585-2

Aris (chemical engineering, University of Minnesota) introduces the art of building a system of equations which is both sufficiently complex to do justice to physical reality and sufficiently simple to give real insight into the situation. Reprints of 17 of the author’s papers, the bulk of the volume, illustrate applications to convective diffusion, formal chemical kinetics, heat and mass transfer, and the philosophy of modeling.