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July 20, 2013 Last post for a while
August 31, 2012 what_do_you_want.m
August 27, 2012 Peak finding in Raman spectroscopy
June 22, 2012 curve fitting to get overlapping peak areas
June 20, 2012 Colors, 3D Plotting, and Data Manipulation
May 29, 2012 Some of this, sum of that
May 29, 2012 Lather, rinse and repeat
May 08, 2012 Enhancements to Matlab wordpress
May 07, 2012 Brief intro to regular expressions
February 26, 2012 Issues with nested functions
February 03, 2012 Better interpolate than never
January 28, 2012 are two averages different?
January 03, 2012 Sums, products and linear algebra notation - avoiding loops where possible
January 01, 2012 Estimating the boiling point of water
December 26, 2011 Gibbs energy minimization and the NIST webbook
December 25, 2011 Finding equilibrium composition by direct minimization of Gibbs free energy on mole numbers
December 25, 2011 A novel way to numerically estimate the derivative of a function - complex-step derivative approximation
December 24, 2011 Constrained optimization
December 24, 2011 Using Lagrange multipliers in optimization
December 20, 2011 The Gibbs free energy of a reacting mixture and the equilibrium composition
December 19, 2011 Conservation of mass in chemical reactions
December 15, 2011 Interacting with graphs with context menus
December 13, 2011 Water gas shift equilibria via the NIST Webbook
December 08, 2011 Interacting with graphs with keypresses
November 24, 2011 Turkeyfy your plots
November 23, 2011 3D plots of the steam tables
November 22, 2011 Interacting with your graph through mouse clicks
November 22, 2011 Interacting with the steam Entropy-temperature chart
November 18, 2011 Numerically calculating an effectiveness factor for a porous catalyst bead
November 17, 2011 Modeling a transient plug flow reactor
November 13, 2011 Controlling the exit concentration of a CSTR
November 13, 2011 Unique entries in a vector
November 13, 2011 Sorting in Matlab
November 11, 2011 Interacting with labeled data points
November 09, 2011 plot the solution to an ODE in cylindrical coordinates
November 06, 2011 Yet another way to parameterize an ODE
November 06, 2011 Vectorized piecewise functions
November 02, 2011 Method of continuity for solving nonlinear equations - Part II
November 01, 2011 Method of continuity for nonlinear equation solving
October 31, 2011 Matlab meets the steam tables
October 30, 2011 Smooth transitions between discontinuous functions
October 27, 2011 compute pipe diameter
October 23, 2011 Using Java inside Matlab
October 22, 2011 Create a word document from Matlab
October 21, 2011 Linear programming example with inequality constraints
October 21, 2011 Linear algebra approaches to solving systems of constant coefficient ODEs
October 15, 2011 The trapezoidal method of integration
October 10, 2011 nonlinearfit_minsse.m
October 09, 2011 Graphical methods to help get initial guesses for multivariate nonlinear regression
October 06, 2011 Sprintfing to the finish
October 01, 2011 Model selection
September 30, 2011 Plane poiseuelle flow solved by finite difference
September 30, 2011 Fitting a numerical ODE solution to data
September 28, 2011 Delay differential equations
September 27, 2011 Some basic data structures in Matlab
September 26, 2011 solving a second order ode
September 25, 2011 Linear least squares fitting with linear algebra
September 18, 2011 Another way to parameterize an ODE - nested function
September 18, 2011 Error tolerance in numerical solutions to ODEs
September 17, 2011 finding minima and maxima in ODE solutions with events
September 16, 2011 Customizing plots after the fact
September 16, 2011 Parameterized ODEs
September 16, 2011 Calculating a bubble point pressure
September 14, 2011 Picasso's short lived blue period with Matlab
September 14, 2011 Check out the new Fall colors!
September 13, 2011 On the quad, or trapz'd in ChemE heaven?
September 11, 2011 The equal area method for the van der Waals equation
September 10, 2011 Counting roots
September 10, 2011 Reading parameter database text files in Matlab
September 08, 2011 Plane Poiseuille flow - BVP solve by shooting method
September 06, 2011 Introduction to statistical data analysis
September 05, 2011 Numerical propogation of errors
September 04, 2011 Random thoughts
September 03, 2011 Know your tolerance
September 02, 2011 Stopping the integration of an ODE at some condition
September 01, 2011 ODEs with discontinuous forcing functions
August 31, 2011 Solving an ode for a specific solution value
August 31, 2011 Solving integral equations
August 29, 2011 Nonlinear curve fitting with parameter confidence intervals
August 28, 2011 Linear regression with confidence intervals.
August 27, 2011 Introduction to statistical data analysis
August 25, 2011 plotting two datasets with very different scales
August 24, 2011 Indexing vectors and arrays in Matlab
August 21, 2011 transient heat conduction - partial differential equations
August 12, 2011 Constrained minimization to find equilibrium compositions
August 11, 2011 Plane Poiseuille flow - BVP
August 11, 2011 Boundary value problem in heat conduction
August 10, 2011 Symbolic math in Matlab
August 09, 2011 Phase portraits of a system of ODEs
August 09, 2011 where its @ - I got two turntables and a microphone
August 08, 2011 Solving Bessel's Equation numerically
August 07, 2011 Manipulating excel with Matlab
August 07, 2011 Reading in delimited text files
August 07, 2011 first order reversible reaction in batch reactor
August 05, 2011 Using cmu.units in Matlab for basic calculations
August 05, 2011 A simple first order ode evaluated at specific points
August 05, 2011 Introduction to debugging in Matlab (video)
August 04, 2011 Fit a line to numerical data
August 04, 2011 Numerical solution to a simple ode
August 02, 2011 Determining linear independence of a set of vectors
August 01, 2011 polynomials in matlab
August 01, 2011 Basic plotting tutorial
August 01, 2011 Interpolation of data
August 01, 2011 Integrating functions in Matlab
August 01, 2011 Solving linear equations
August 01, 2011 Plot customizations - Modifying line, text and figure properties
August 01, 2011 Illustrating matrix transpose rules in matrix multiplication