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Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing

Bruce A. Finlayson, John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Source Code for Examples in Book: go to booksupport.wiley.com and search on Finlayson

Additional free resources for you:
Supplement Using Python (solving examples in the book)

In 2008 I was honored by CACHE for my contributions to the use of computers in chemical engineering education. This is a pdf of my talk, given at the AIChE meeting in November, 2008.

• Process Simulation

• Newest! Electrochemical Polymerization in Stirred Tanks
• Chemical Reactor with Mass Transfer Limitation in Comsol
• System mass balances in Comsol
• CSTRs in Comsol
• PVT in Comsol
• Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium in Comsol
• Chemical Equilibrium in Comsol
• Complicated process solved with Excel
• Links for energy problems in Aspen
• Shortcut Distillation

• Flow and Diffusion

• Comsol Instructions, Ch. 9, first example
• Comsol modules - what is included
• Laminar diffusion fluid interface
• Heat Transfer to a Sphere
• Solution to Problem 9.26
• hole3D mesh, problem 10.29
• serpentine mesh, problems 10.26 and 11.24
• gradient mesh, problem 11.29
• Rayleigh Natural Convection Problem

• Numerical Info

• Expanded Appendix on Excel , as pdf document
• Parameter estimation from App. E, 1st edition
• delta-x limit for strong convection
• Approximate solution for flow between flat plates with diffusion sideways
• Approximate solution for laminar diffusion fluid interface, Problem 11.28
• Info on numerical programs: LU decomp, RKF45, Gear, MacCormack with flux correction

Undergraduate Research Projects at the University of Washinton, 2001-2009