Mathematical Modeling of Physical Systems provides a concise and lucid introduction to mathematical modeling for students and professionals approaching the topic for the first time. It is based on the premise that modeling is as much an art as it is a science--an art that can be mastered only by sustained practice. To provide that practice, the text contains approximately 100 worked examples and numerous practice problems drawn from civil and biomedical engineering, as well as from economics, physics, and chemistry. Problems range from classical examples, such as Euler's treatment of the...

This unique approach to the basic concepts of adsorption is written for students, engineers, scientists, and others who need a clear presentation of adsorption processes. Unlike other texts on this subject, which are written for the specialist and rely heavily on advanced mathematics, this unique book helps you solve everyday problems in applications of adsorption, without complex mathematics or computers.
The author, a recognized expert in the field, gives you a quick introduction to the underlying physics of absorption and explains how to apply adsorption to solve analytical and design...

Revised and expanded, Mass Transfer: Principles, Applications, and Separation Processes provides a complete theoretical introduction along with various biomedical, engineering, and environmental applications. This second edition features over 100 real-world worked examples, illustrative figures, and end-of-chapter exercises as well as a solutions manual. Avoiding an overly mathematical presentation of material, this text seeks to convey a sense of scale to students in order to emphasize the development of their abilities to make proper simplifying assumptions, to perform proper modeling, and...

The Art of Modeling in Science and Engineering with Mathematica helps readers overcome three common difficulties: the proper choice of model, the absence of precise solutions, and the need to make suitable simplifying assumptions and approximations. It covers a wide range of physical processes and phenomena drawn from various disciplines and clearly illuminates the link between the physical system being modeled and the mathematical expression that results. This second edition incorporates the use of Mathematica in various applications. It also includes new examples on HIV, the rate of carbon...