| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"Preface This book has been written using notes developed for the course Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers at Tulane University. The author has written two previous textbooks; one on FORTRAN programming and one using the language Pascal. On a personal note, when I completed the Pascal book I asked my wife to break my fingers if I ever decided to write another book! Well, that was a long time ago and having been granted a sabbatical leave to write this book, my wife decided that she would look the other way. While there are many textbooks whose title would indicate that they are suitable for the course Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers, every one that has been tried has been a failure in one way or another. Either they were too elementary and the applications and problems were not ideal or they did not offer instruction in Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This led to the development, over a 5 year period, of detailed notes to be used in place of a textbook. These notes have been enhanced and put into textbook form to produce the present book. The primary reason for using Excel is that it is generally available software and it comes with every computer system (both PC and Mac) with Microsoft Office installed. VBA is a programming environment that comes with Excel and greatly enhances the capabilities of basic Excel spreadsheets. It is available on systems running Microsoft operating systems and Mac OS. Beware, however, that VBA is available only on the latest (2011) version of Microsoft Office for the Mac. Other programming software systems that are often used in chemical and biomolecular engineering numerical methods courses are the following:"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Roots of a Single Nonlinear Equation -- chapter 2 Visual Basic® for Applications Programming -- chapter 3 Linear Algebra and Systems of Linear Equations -- chapter 4 Numerical Differentiation and Integration -- chapter 5 Ordinary Differential Equations (Initial Value Problems) -- chapter 6 Ordinary Differential Equations (Boundary Value Problems) -- chapter 7 Regression Analysis and Parameter Estimation -- chapter 8 Partial Differential Equations -- chapter 9 Linear Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Nonlinear Equations, and Nonlinear Regression Using Solver -- chapter 10 Introduction to MATLAB®. |
| Subject |
Microsoft Excel (Computer file)
|
|
MATLAB.
|
|
MATLAB |
|
Microsoft Excel (Computer file) |
|
Microsoft Visual Basic for applications |
|
Chemical engineering -- Mathematics -- Textbooks.
|
|
Visual Basic for Applications (Computer program language)
|
|
Chemical engineering -- Mathematics |
| Genre |
Electronic book.
|
|
Textbooks
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Law, Victor J. Numerical methods for chemical engineers using Excel, VBA, and MATLAB 9781466575349 (DLC) 2012049283 (OCoLC)802325739 |
| ISBN |
9780429190247 electronic book |
|
0429190247 electronic book |
|
electronic book |
|
electronic book |
|
9781466575356 electronic book |
|
1466575352 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
10.1201/b14294 doi |
|
More Resources