While educating the Numerical equipment for Engineers direction over the past 15 years, the writer discovered a necessity for a brand new textbook, one who used to be much less ordinary, supplied purposes and difficulties higher suited to chemical engineers, and contained guide in visible Basic^® for functions (VBA). This resulted in six years of constructing instructing notes which were more desirable to create the present textbook, Numerical equipment for Chemical Engineers utilizing Excel^®, VBA, and MATLAB^®.

Focusing on Excel supplies the benefit of it being quite often to be had, because it is current on each computer—PC and Mac—that has Microsoft place of work put in. The VBA programming setting comes with Excel and enormously complements the services of Excel spreadsheets. whereas there's no excellent programming procedure, educating this mixture deals wisdom in a extensively on hand software that's established (Excel) in addition to a well-liked educational software program package deal (MATLAB). Chapters disguise nonlinear equations, visible easy, linear algebra, traditional differential equations, regression research, partial differential equations, and mathematical programming methods.

Each bankruptcy includes examples that convey intimately how a selected numerical process or programming technique will be applied in Excel and/or VBA (or MATLAB in bankruptcy 10). lots of the examples and difficulties awarded within the textual content are regarding chemical and biomolecular engineering and canopy a huge variety of software parts together with thermodynamics, fluid move, warmth move, mass move, response kinetics, reactor layout, approach layout, and technique keep an eye on. The chapters characteristic "Did you recognize" packing containers, used to remind readers of Excel gains. in addition they comprise end-of-chapter routines, with ideas provided.