Computational tools FORTRAN

This book will acquaint the reader with some of the important tools and strategies now available for investigating chemical processes and systems on personal computers. We present some useful mathematical models, numerical methods for solving them, and statistical methods for testing and discriminating candidate models with experimental data. The software package Athena Visual Studio, obtained from www.AthenaVisual.com, will enable you to do these computations and view the results on your personal computer screen, print them and transmit them. Familiarity with Microsoft Windows (1998 or later) is required, but little knowledge of Fortran, since Athena converts equation statements directly into Fortran code as described in the Athena tutorial on your computer s desktop. 

The program is coded in standard Fortran 77 and is very fast even multi-parameter fitting calculations are rapidly completed. Thanks to the widespread free GNU gcc/g77 compilers, it can be run on virtually any Unix/Linux system and also on Windows computers provided the GNU tools are installed on the machine. 

What are the reasons for imperfect use of Mathcad capabilities The first reason is, of course, that some users do not know about such useful Mathcad tool as built-in constants of physical quantities. The users apply techniques in Mathcad, in physical and mathematical programs, based spreadsheet experience or even computer programming (such as C++, Fortran, etc.). Such non-physical languages where the... 

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