CL 09

APPLIED MATHEMATICS IN CHEMICAL

ENGINEERING
L T P C
3 0 0 3

COURSE CONTENT

Design of engineering experiments: Treatment of experimental data and interpretation of results.
Experiments with a single factor: the analysis of variance. Factorial designs. Curve fitting
methods, Interpolation and extrapolation.

Formulation of physical problems: Mathematical modelling of chemical engineering processes
based on first principles.

Analytical solutions of equations: Separable forms, homogeneous equations, exact solutions,
singular solutions.

Numerical solution of non-linear equations: Linearization of nonlinear equations. Numerical
solution of ordinary differential equations: Initial value and boundary value problems. Stiff
differential equations. Numerical solution of partial differential equations.

Optimization: Types of optimization problems, optimization of a function of single variable,
unconstrained minimization, constrained minimization.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Douglas C. Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments John Wiley, 8
th
Edition,
2012

2. Harold S. Mickley, Thomas S. Sherwood, Charles E. Reed, Applied Mathematics in
Chemical Engineering Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, Second
Edition, 1975.

3. Richard G. Rice & Duong D. D, Applied Mathematics and Modelling for Chemical
Engineers John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

REFERENCES:

1. Mark E. Davis, Numerical Methods and Modelling for Chemical Engineers, John
Wiley & Sons, 1984.
2. S. K. Gupta, Numerical Techniques for Engineers", Wiley Eastern Ltd., New York,
1995.