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Chemical Engineering 6665: TECHNIQUES FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

ANALYSIS AN ESIGN

Catalog Description: ChE 6665: Techniques for Chemical Engineering Analysis and Design (3)

rerequisites: !ndergraduate differential equations"transport processes" and chemical reaction engineering#

De$elopment of analytical and numerical methods for analysis of steady state and

transient chemical engineering pro%lems arising in fluid mechanics" heat transfer" masstransfer" &inetics" and reactor design#

'nstructor: atthe *euroc&

+ffice: ,-, Chemical EngineeringE.mail: mn/n0$irginia#edu

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Class Times: 3:3-./:/5 pm Tuesday ThursdayEC331

Te4t%oo&: e do not follo a single te4t%oo ou should ha$e a good applied

mathematics te4t%oo& to hich you can refer# The %oo& %y 7arma and

or%idelli" hich is listed %elo" is one good te4t# ou may also ish to refer to%oo&s on numerical analysis8 a fe are listed#

Copies of the lecture notes ill %e offered for sale at the !7a 9oo&store# !pdates

ill %e posted as needed on !7aColla%# Thi! i! n"# a #e$#%"" The notessimply contain the equations that e shall discuss8 there are no accompanying

ords and no e4planation of the equations# The notes are meant to %e an aid indecreasing the amount of time spent riting don equations in class# oull antto add your on notes during the lecture and during our discussions# e ould

li&e to use class time for discussion8 so please loo& through the notes %efore class

and %ring your thoughts and questions# lease also feel free to see me outside ofclass in my office for indi$idual discussions#

;eferences:

athematical ethods in Chemical Engineering" A# 7arma and # or%idelli"

+4ford !ni$# ress" *e or& (# 9# ?ilde%rand" @Ad$anced Calculus for Applications"@ ,nd edition"

rentice.?all"

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9ird" Bteart and ightfoot" @Transport henomena"@ iley" ourier transform

method# similarity transformation# *umerical solution of DEs#

5# ertur%ation ethods

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E4aminations: The quiFFes and the final ill %e closed %oo

e ill %e learning ho to treat m"'el! of pro%lems of interest in Chemical Engineering iththe use of %oth anal(#ical !"l)#i"n! an' n)merical me#h"'!# This is not a course in computer

programming# *e$ertheless" you ill %e e4pected to de$elop computer codes to sol$e pro%lems#

C"m*)#er *r"gramming an' )!age: e ill %e using atla% to do some programming in thiscourse# Bome of you are already at some other language" such as CLL8 ' suggest" hoe$er" so

that e are all together on assignments and discussion" that you use atla% for the %eginning of

ChE665# (ater for some proKects" you can use CLL if you prefer#) >or many (most) of you" '

recommend using atla% as a first programming language# 't is sufficient for the computationsthat you ill do for this course and for many that you ill do during your stay in graduate

school#

?omeor& policy: ate homeor& ill normally not %e accepted# A reasona%le amount of

$er%al colla%oration among students ta&ing this class is e4pected and encouraged#?oe$er" the or& must %e your on# " n"# re+er #" *r"%lem !"l)#i"n! "r c"m*)#er

*r"gram! +r"m *re,i")! (ear!- >or some of the proKects special instructions shall %e

gi$en and these proKects ill ha$e more eight than the normal homeor& assignments#

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Chemical Engineering 6665

Tentati$e Bylla%us

The class meets =5 minutes per class period in the EC 331 on the third floor#

An appro4imate schedule is as follos:

'# 'ntroduction

irst order linear +DEs#

Bets of

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ourier 'ntegral#

+rthogonality and e4pansion of functions##