CHEN 3350 Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering
This is an upper division technical elective designed to introduce numerical approaches to solving problems relevant to chemical engineering. In this course, we will explore topics like linear algebra, non-linear equations, statistics, initial value problems, boundary value problems for differential equations, optimization by solve chemical engineering problems. We will focus on numerical solutions and approximation of analytical solutions by using the Python programming language.
Specific topics covered in this course are: Introduction to Python programming language, Introduction to external libraries like Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib, Linear equations and regression, Non-linear equations, Statistics, Numerical differentiation and integration, Initial and boundary value problems, Partial differential equations.