Biokinetic Modeling of Imperfect Mixing in a Chemostat – an Example of Multiscale Modeling

Authors

  • Micahel B. Cutlip University of Connecticut
  • Neima Brauner Tel-Aviv University
  • Mordechai Shacham Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Author Biographies

Micahel B. Cutlip, University of Connecticut

Michael B. Cutlip is professor emeritus of the Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut and has served as department head and director of the university's Honors Program. He has B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees from Ohio State and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. His current interests include the development of general software for numerical problem solving and application to chemical and biochemical engineering.

Neima Brauner, Tel-Aviv University

Neima Brauner is a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and Heat Transfer at the Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Tel-Aviv University. Her research interests include hydrodynamics and transport phenomena in two-phase flow systems.

Mordechai Shacham, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mordechai Shacham is the Benjamin H. Swig professor and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He received his B.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include analysis, modeling, and regression of data, applied numerical methods, and prediction and consistency analysis of physical properties.

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Published

2009-07-01

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Vol. 43 No. 3 (2009): Summer 2009

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Class and Home Problems