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First published 2007

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Suitable for a first-year graduate course, this textbook unites the applications of numerical mathematics and scientific computing to the practice of chemical engineering. Written in a pedagogic style, the book describes basic linear and nonlinear algebraic systems all the way through to stochastic methods, Bayesian statistics, and parameter estimation. These subjects are developed at a nominal level of theoretical mathematics suitable for graduate engineers. The implementation of numerical methods in MATLAB is integrated within each chapter and numerous examples in chemical engineering are provided, together with a library of corresponding MATLAB programs. Although the applications focus on chemical...