B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Numerical Method in Chemical Engineering Lab Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Numerical method in Chemical Engineering Lab
Module 1: Introduction & Approximations, Algebraic and Transcendental equations. printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Motivation and Applications Accuracy and precision; Truncation and round-off errors; Binary Number System; Error propagation, fixed point iteration method, Newton Raphson Method Applications in Chemical Engineering.
Module 2: Linear Systems and Equations printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Gauss Siedal, Gauss Jacobi method; Matrix Inversion; LU Decomposition; TDMA Method. (Numericals based on application in Chemical Engineering)
Module 3: Numerical Differentiation and Integration. printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Numerical differentiation- method; error analysis; higher order formulae. (Numericals based on application in Chemical Engineering)
Module 4: Interpolation printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- (Finite difference operators, difference tables, Newton's Forward/Backward, Central difference; (Central difference interpolation formulae Cubic Splines. (Numericals based on application in Chemical Engineering)
Module 5: Partial differential equation printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Laplace equation, Heat equation, wave equation, (Numericals based on application in Chemical Engineering)
Module 6: ODEs: Initial Value Problems printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Introduction to ODE-IVP, Modified Predictor-corrector methods, Extension to multi-variable systems; Adaptive step size; Stiff ODEs. Over/Under Relaxation (SOR).
Text Books
- 1 Introduction to Scilab: A Mathematical Tool by Dr Jitendra Singh, Sh. Jogendra Singh
- 2 Numerical method using Scilab by Dr. Santosh Ingle
- 3 Numerical Methods using Python by Dhananjay R. Mishra
- 1 Numerical methods in chemical engineering Author : Pradeep Ahuja Publisher : PHI learning
- 2 S C Chapra and R P Canale, Numerical Methods for Engineers, McGraw Hill International
- 8 www.thechemicalengineers.com/
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module 1 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 2 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 3 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 4 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 5 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 6 is printed as Module Detailed Content. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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