Multiscale chemical engineering

Miroslav Grmela, Multiscale Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Chemical Engineering... 

At least in the traditional domains of chemical engineering and in the traditional core of instructions that chemical engineers receive during their education, fluid mechanics (transport phenomena) has played a key role. Also one of the principal motivations for creating nonequilibrium thermodynamics was an attempt to make fluid mechanics manifestly compatible with equilibrium thermodynamics. Even the noncanonical Hamiltonian structures that play such an important role in the multiscale nonequilibrium thermodyna mics presented in Section 3 have been first discovered... 

Science in 2004 that have been dedicated to Complex Systems and Multi-scale Methodology, the forth issue of the 29th volume in Computers in Chemical Engineering on Multiscale Simulation published in 2005, the Springer-Verlag IMA edited book on Dispersive Transport Equations and Multiscale Models resulting from a related workshop, numerous workshops, and a topical conference on Multiscale Analysis in the 2005 AIChE meeting, just to mention a few. 

Maroudas, D., Modeling of radical-surface interactions in the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon thin films, in (A.K. Chakraborty, Ed.), Molecular Modeling and Theory in Chemical Engineering , vol. 28, p. 252. Academic Press, New York (2001). Maroudas, D. Multiscale modeling, Challenges for the chemical sciences in the 21st century Information and communications report , National Academies, Washington, DC. p. 133. 

The fourth objective includes the need to use multiscale computational chemical engineering in real-life situations. 

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