1st Edition

Applied Numerical Methods for Food and Agricultural Engineers

By Prabir K. Chandra, R. Paul Singh Copyright 1995

    Written from the expertise of an agricultural engineering background, this exciting new book presents the most useful numerical methods and their complete program listings.

    Units and Dimensions
    A Concise Treatise on FORTRAN
    Numerical Methods
    Numerical Differentation
    Real Roots of Algebraic Equations
    Numerical Integration
    Solution of Linear Algebraic Equations
    Least Squares Approximation
    Solution of Initial and Boundary Value Problems
    Solution of Partial Differential Equations
    Errors
    Finite Element Methods
    Dimensional Analysis
    Methods of Dimensional Analysis
    Model Testing for Scaling Up
    Applications
    Air Psychrometrics
    Tubular Heat Exchanger with Annular Fin
    Heat Transfer Coefficient in Puffing of Rice
    Residence Time of a Particle Inside a Cyclone Seperator
    Drying Simulation using Diffusion and Thin-Layer Concepts
    Appendices
    Index

    Biography

    Prabir K. Chandra, R. Paul Singh