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CHAPTER 1

Numerical
Computation

INTRODUCTION

Engineers, technologists, and scientists have employed numerical


methods of analysis to solve a wide range of steady and transient
problems. The fundamentals are essential in the basic operations of curve
fitting, approximation, interpolation, numerical solutions of simultaneous
linear and nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation and integra-
tion. These requirements are greater when new processes are designed.
Engineers also need theoretical information and data from published
works to construct mathematical models that simulate new processes.
Developing mathematical models with personal computers sometimes
involves experimental programs to obtain the required information for
the models. Developing an experimental program is strongly dependent
on the knowledge of the process with theory, where the whole modifi-
cation can be produced by some form of mathematical models or
regression analyses. Figure 1-1 shows the relationship between math-
ematical modeling and regression analysis.
Texts [1-5] with computer programs and sometimes with supplied
software are now available for scientists and engineers. They must fit a
function or functions to measure data that fluctuate, which result from
random error of measurement. If the number of data points equals the
order of the polynomial plus one, we can exactly fit a polynomial to the
data points. Fitting a function to a set of data requires more data than
the order of a polynomial. The accuracy of the fitted curve depends on
the large number of experimental data. In this chapter, we will develop

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