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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr William B. J. Zimmerman is a Reader in Chemical and Process Engineering.
His research interests are in fluid dynamics and reaction engineering. He has
previously created modules entitled Chemical Engineering Problem Solving with
Mathematica, Modelling and Simulation in Chemical Processes, Numerical
Analysis in Chemical Engineering, and FORTRAN programming. He has been
modelling with finite element methods since 1986. He has authored over sixty
scientific and scholarly works. He is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford
Universities in Chemical Engineering, past Director of the M Sc in
Environmental and Energy Engineering, originator of the M Sc in Process Fluid
Dynamics, and a winner in US and UK national competitions of four prestigious
fellowships:
2000-5 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
1994-99 Royal Academy of Engineering, Zeneca Young Academic Fellow.
1991-93 NATO postdoctoral fellow in science and engineering.
1988-9 1 National Science Foundation Research Fellow
