Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems and Waves, clear and lucid, maybe too mathemati- propriate, moreover, since the
nce the text is
Alan Jeffrey, Pitman Publishing, Lon-
don, 230 pages, E 6.90.
Until quite recently books suitable
for the chemical engineering audience
on systems of first order partial differ-
ential equations did not exist. Those
who desired to inquire about this fas-
cinating field were frustrated by the
older books of Goursat and Carathe-
odory and were only somewhat more
satisfied with Courant and Fredrichs
or Courant and Hilbert which, indeed,
were heavy going for most of us, al-
though it is all there. First order sys-
tems of equations are the natural start-
ing blocks for many problems in math-
ematical modelling because of their
simplicity and economy and because
they elucidate the basic structure of
many problems without the concomi-
tant complexity caused by the transport
terms now such a fetish in intentionally
complicated models. Hyperbolic sys-
tems are the natural hunting ground
for wave propagation; shocks arise
quite naturally. For a variety of prob-
lems in chemical engineering, such as,
fixed and moving bed reactors, adsorp-
tion beds, pebble heaters, and para-
metric pumps, to name only a few, the
beautiful interplay of constant states,
simple waves, and the aforementioned
shocks not only enriches and enlivens
our lives but informs us about the basic
pathological character of a problem
without the messy and often uninterest-
ing details caused by transport and
computers.
Alan Jeffrey has written an admirable
book which discusses all of the perti-
nent topics useful to modern chemical
engineers only moderately sophisticated
mathematically. It is clearly an excel-
lent book from which to learn about the
structure of hyperbolic systems,
namely, the anatomy of characteristics,
shock waves, Riemann invariants, sim-
ple waves, and the propagation of dis-
continuities. The style of the book is
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cal for some, but it has numerous appli- designed for the engineering student
cations, largely to fluid mechanical sys- rather than the physician.
tems. There are no applications to other We are pleased that the author has
things, perhaps more interesting to included practical examples of disease
chemical engineers, but, as we all states such as narrowing of arteries and
know, there is another superb book aneurysms (p. 83) and has not over-
that does exactly that. looked classical physiological phenom-
ena such as the one-way venous valves
NEALR. AMUNDSON
University of Minnesota
(P. 89).
Modeling the body as compartments,
sources and streams, is particularly val-
uable as it relates to the kinetics of
Biomedical Engineering Principles, David
0. Cooney, Marcel Dekker, New York,
drug distribution. The fields of pharma-
1976, xiv + 458 pages, $36.50. cokinetics, drug design and evaluation
are a natural for chemical engineers
Written by one of the young success- and are becoming increasingly impor-
ful researchers and educators in the tant.
field, this textbook is a very good con- The only addition we would have
tribution and a much needed addition liked to see included in this book,
to the basic literature of the growing would be a section covering the tools
field of biomedical engineering. Since of medicine not included elsewhere;
no single book can encompass all as- i.e., respiratory, diagnostic and thera-
pects of the field, a justifiable subtitle peutic equipment, environmental con-
points out the authors concentration to trol devices (isolettes, temperature con-
fluid, heat and mass transport processes trol mechanisms, etc.) , and radiation
in the human body. diagnostic and therapeutic implements.
The reviewers, a practicing pedia- We must, however, acknowledge that
trician and former chemical engineer the areas most often attacked by chem-
who has been engaged in the teaching ical engineers (artificial kidney and car-
of introductory courses in biomedical dio-pulmonary by-pass machines) have
engineering for the past seven years, been most adequately covered.
and a chemical, engineer who is pres- The engineering aspects and math-
ently involved in related research and matical modeling are drawn directly
has been exposed to the subjects cov- from and backed very efficiently by the
ered by this book, have sensed the nec- original literature citations of the re-
essity for a textbook directed mainly to search of Colton, Cooney, Keller, Light-
chemical engineers and they have ex- foot, Merrill, Michael, Middleman, and
perienced the unfortuante educational other chemical engineers who in the
solution of having to use handouts from last fifteen years have contributed to
physiology books and/or engineering this area. Consequently, chapters 3, 7,
review articles. 9 and 11 dealing with blood rheology,
The author solves this problem ef- transport through membranes, artificial
ficiently by covering basic anatomy and kidneys and oxygenators are very well
physiology in an abbreviated but ade- bvritten. The book is backed by over
quate fashion particularly in Chapters two hundred carefully selected illustra-
2, 8 and 10; and by presenting the tions, numerous tables and some sixty
mathematical modeling and engineer- problems.
ing aspects in a concentrated by under- We would not hesitate recommend-
standable manner in the other chapters. ing this text for an introductory senior
This bias and apparent unbalance is ap- 0 s graduate biomedical engineering
AlChE Journai (Vol. 23, No. 2)
course and we hope to use it in our Gas Dynamics, Vol. I , by M. J. Zucrow Order In Polymer Solutions, edited by K.
classes in the Fall of 1977, although for and J. D. Hoffman, John Wiley 8, Sons, Solc of Midland Macromolecular Institute
an advanced approach to the engineer- 1976, 772 pages. $26.95. (MMI), Gordon and Breach, 1976, 320
ing aspects the more specialized books This text has its origin in Zucrows pages, $19.50.
of Middleman and Lightfoot are still earlier book Aircraft and Missile Pro-
preferable or at least supplementary to pulsion, Vol. I, Thermodynamics of
this one. This book consists of 13 papers pre-
Fluid Flow and Application to Propul- sented at the 1st monotopical sympo-
Our only serious reservation is the sion Engines, and represents an up- sium held at MMI. All the papers in-
cost of the book, especially considering dated version of that work based on cluding several authoritative reviews
the form of printing undertaken by this the extensive classroom experience of and new theoretical and experimental
publisher. The price is unacceptable Professor Hoffman. Use of numerical results deal primarily with the presence
for an undergraduate textbook, al- methods for solving real gas dynamics of ordered structure, helix formation,
though the prepublication announce- problems is emphasized.
ment that we received earlier this year, solvation and association in both syn-
The text begins with two chapters thetic and biological polymers in solu-
stated that a special discount for adop- covering fundamental principles, and tion. Furthermore, since subjects are
tion orders of five or more copies is the derivation of the governing equa- current and sufficiently integrated with
available, at the price of $24.50. tions for compressible flow. Here one one another so that any chemical engi-
NICHOLAS A. PEPPAS Sc.D. finds that modern fluid mechanics has neer who is at all interested in the ef-
Assistant Professor been completely avoided in the presen- fects of order on reaction efficiency,
and ROBERTE. HANNEMANN, M.D. tation of the laws of mechanics, and all mechanism, rates, as well as the proper-
Visiting Professor of the recent progress in thermodynam- ties of such products will find this book
School of Chemical Engineering ics has been ignored. The concepts of a welcome addition to his personal li-
Purdue University kinematics and stress are presented in a brary.
superficial, and sometimes incorrect, For example, as one who is primarily
manner. interested in order in the so-called
After having dispensed with funda- amorphous solid state, I find the evi-
mentals, the authors move into home dence described by G. Challa on the
Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers, territory with four chapters on one- stereospecific replica polymerization of
K. E. Betts, J. S. Rowlinson, and G. Saville. dimensional fiow covering general fea- methyl methacrylate on stereoregular
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, tures, area change, friction, and heat poly (methyl methacrylate) as a poly-
1975, 505 pages. $1 9.95. transfer. Virtually every aspect of one- mer matrix in different types and on
This book provides a thorough intro- dimensional flow is discussed here, and their replication efficiency highly inter-
duction to the subject. The first eight in these chapters one finds numerous esting. I wont hesitate in recommend-
chapters develop the relations that are solved example problems. A significant ing this book to my fellow chemical en-
utilized in classical thermodynamics number of these deal with the use of gineers who are interested in polymers.
while the final chapter treats the pre- numerical methods for solving various
diction of thermodynamic properties by compressible flow problems,
means of statistical thermodynamics. Completion of the material on one-
G. S. Y. YEH
Although the authors state that the text dimensional flow finds one halfway Departments of Chemical
is used throughout the three years of through the text and moving on to
Materials and
undergraduate study in England, it shock waves (normal and oblique),
expansion waves, and combustion Metallurgical Engineering
could be covered in a two-term junior-
level course. The authors introduce waves. These three chapters are di- The University of Michigan
numerous exercises throughout the text rected toward the analysis of super-
and these should provide some of the sonic propulsion systems, and once
practice that is so necessary in learning again there are numerous solved ex-
the subject. The book utilizes the SI ample problems to illustrate the appli-
system of units throughout. The cau- cation of various theoretical develop- CHEMICAL REACTION
tions and calculation strategies included ments. The material contained in these ENGINEERING
in this book are particularly helpful. first nine chapters is presented within
Careful attention to these cautions the framework of one-dimensional Proceedings of
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should enable the reader to avoid some flows, and in Chapter 10 one is intro- Heidelberg/FRG, 6-8 April 1976
of the common misapplications of the duced to the general features of multi-
subject. dimensional flows. This is followed sponsored by The American Institute
The book does not contain the prop- with chapters on acoustics and two- of Chemical Engineers, the American
erty table for any common substance as dimensional irrotational supersonic Chemical Society, the Canadian So-
most thermodynamics texts do. It does flow. The final chapter takes up the ciety for Chemical Engineering and
provide an extensive bibliography of matter of unsteady, one-dimensional, the European Federation of Chemical
these charts, however. homentropic flows, with much of the
Engineering,
This carefully written book could chapter devoted to numerical methods.
serve not only as an introduction to the While one cannot expect to find in 9 survey papers, 45 contributed papers
subject, but also as a reference for those this text a rigorous theoretical treat- by authors from the USA and Europe.
familiar with the subject. ment of gas dynamics, the authors pos- Volume of 660 pages including graphs
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