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Dr. J. D. (Bob) Seader Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Emeritus
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Education:
Employment:
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Current Research Interests:
1. Development of new mathematical methods for solving large sets of nonlinear equations to obtain multiple solutions.
2. Mathematical studies of computer- aided process synthesis and
design.
Recent
Publications:
Seader, J. D. and M. Kuno, et. al., Mapped Continuation Methods for Computing all Solutions to General Systems of Nonlinear Equations, Comp. and Chem. Engr., 14, 71-85 (1990). (Best Paper Award).
Riley, A. M., J. D. Seader, et. al., An In-situ Volumetric Method for Dynamically Measuring the Absorption of Deuterium in Palladium During Electrolysis, J. Electrochem. Soc., 139, 1342-1347 (1992).
deNevers, N., and Seader, J. D., Helping Students Develop a Critical Attitude Towards Chemical Process Calculations, Chem. Eng. Edu., 26, 88-93 (1992).
Lee, W. Y., Seader, J. D., et al., Multicomponent Liquid-Phase Diffusion and Adsorption in Porous Catalyst Particles, Chem. Eng. Science, 48, 595-607 (1993).
Lee, S. Y., Coronella, C. J., and Seader, J. D., et al., Modeling and Temperature Regulation of a Thermally coupled Reactor System via Internal Model Control Strategy, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research, 32, 3029-3036 (1993).
Coronella, C. J., S. Y. Lee, and J. D. Seader, "Minimum Slugging Velocity in Fluidized Beds Containing Vertical Rods," Fuel, 73, 1537-1543 (1994).
Balaji, G. V., and J. D. Seader, "Applications of Interval Mathematics," Reliable Computing, 1, 215-223 (1995).
“Computers in Chemical Engineering Education”, B. Carnahan, editor, CACHE, Austin (1996).
Seader, J. D., J. J. Siirola, and S. D. Barnicki, Section 13 (Distillation) of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7th edition,
McGraw-Hill, New York, (1997).
Jalali, F., and Seader, J. D., “Homotopy Continuation Method in Multi-phase Multi-reaction Equilibrium Systems”,
Computers and Chem. Engr., 23, 1319-1331 (1999).
J. D. (Bob) Seader Festschrift, Preface by D. R. Paul, Ind. Eng. Chem. Research, 39, 1527-1528 (2000).
Lewin, D. R., W. D. Seider, and J. D. Seader, “An Integrated Approach to Process Design Instruction”, Computers and Chem. Engr., 24, 1369-1374
(2000).
Jalali, R., and Seader, J. D., “Use of Homotopy-Continuation Method in Stability Analysis of Multiphase, Reacting Systems”,
Computers and Chem. Engr., 24, 1997-2008 (2000).
Sorensen, R. A., Seader, J. D., and Brewster, B. S., “Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer for Cocurrent Upflow of Dilute Gas-Coal Particle Suspensions
in a Circular Tube”, Ind.Eng.Chem. Res., 40, 457-464 (2001).
Vadapalli, A., and Seader, J. D., “A Generalized Framework for Computing Bifurcation Diagrams using Process Simulation Programs”, Computers
and Chem. Engr., 25, 445-464 (2001).
Gritton, K. S., Seader, J. D., and Lin, Wen-Jing, “Global Homotopy Continuation Procedures for Seeking All Roots of a Nonlinear Equation”,
Computers and Chem. Engr., 25, 1003-1019 (2001) .
Lewin,
D. R., Seider, W. D., and Seader, J. D., “Integrated Process Design
Instruction”, Computers and Chem. Engr., 26, 295-306 (2002).
Affililations with Links to other Web Sites:
AIChE: http://www.aiche.org/
University of Utah: http://www.che.utah.edu/
CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education): http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache