Warren E. Stewart Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors Summary

Contact Information

2004 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-0188 E-mail: stewart@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education

• B.S., M.S., UW-Madison; Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fields of Interest

• transport phenomena
• fractionation systems
• chemical reactors
• computational modeling
• parameter estimation and model discrimination

Publications

• "Transport Phenomena" (with R.B. Bird and E.N. Lightfoot), 1st ed. 1960, 2nd ed. 2002. [Corrigenda (pdf) (ps), as of 16 Oct 2001] [Additional corrigenda (pdf) (ps), since 2nd printing, as of 15 April 2002][Additional corrigenda (pdf) (ps), since 3rd printing, as of 21 May 2003]
• "Sensitivity Analysis of Initial-Boundary-Value Problems with Mixed PDEs and Algebraic Equations. Applications to Chemical and Biochemical Systems," (with M. Caracotsios), Computers in Chemical Engineering, 19, 1019-1030 (1995).
• "Concise Correlation of Sieve-Tray Heat and Mass Transfer," (with T. Young), R&D Note, AIChE Journal, 41, 1319-1320 (1995).
• "Transport Modeling of Packed-Tube Reactors - III. Initial Data-Based Functions and Application," (with D.F. Marr and A.M. Gola-Galimidi), Chem. Eng. Sci., 48, 3945-3950 (1993).
• "Transport Modeling of Packed-Tube Reactors - IV. Steady-state Modelling with Intraparticle Gradients," (with J.J. Kasab and S. Mehta), Chem. Eng. Sci., 55, 5783-5792 (2000).
• "Solution and Sensitivity Analysis of Differential-Algebraic- Volterra Equation Systems," (with S. Mehta), Computers & Chemical Engineering, 23, 137-158 (1998).
• "Catalyst Particle Modeling in Fixed-Bed Reactors," (with D.L. Weidman), Chem. Eng. Sci., 45, 2155-2160 (1990).
• "Kinetics of Propylene Hydrogenation on Platinum-Alumina," (with R.H. Shabaker and Y.T. Lu), Chem. Eng. Sci., 43, 2257-2262 (1988); 44, 205 (1989).

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1973)
• Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching (1981)
• Alpha Chi Sigma Research Award, AIChE (1981)
• Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa (1983)
• Chemical Engineering Division Lectureship Award, American Society for Engineering Education (1983)
• Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, CAST Division of AIChE (1985)
• E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1989)
• Elected to National Academy of Engineering (1992)

Summary

Professor Stewart is writing a book on computer-aided reaction modeling, and teaches a course on this subject nearly every spring.