Applied Mathematics And Modeling For Chemical Engineers, Second Edition

The mathematics has not changed much during the 17 years since the first edition, say Rice (retired in Tennessee now) and Do (U. of Queensland, Australia), but new applications emerge regularly and learning styles change. Having in mind self-study as well as traditional university courses, they lead readers through homework problems, providing answers while coaxing students to think more deeply about how the answer was found. They have added new material, mostly homework, on such topics as diffusion in skin and brain implant drug delivery, carbon dioxide storage, chemical reactions in nanotubes, the dissolution of pills and pharmaceutical capsules, honeycomb reactions used in catalytic converters, and new models of important physical phenomena such as bubble coalescence. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

RICHARD G. RICE, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at Louisiana State University and widely published in the areas of chemical separations and two-phase flow.

DUONG D. DO, PhD, is University Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, and is well-known in the area of adsorption science.