Comouter-aided calculating in chemical engineering based on Matlab

Interpolation,curve fitting,linear/nonlinear equation,ordinary/partial differential equation,and linear/nonlinear program-ming are usually involved in chemical engineering process,which are difficult to be solved using traditional program language.Aimingat the problem mentioned above,through four examples of Matlab used in material balance,reactors' calculating,process optimizationand data processing,this paper illustrates the application predominance of Matlab's powerful functions of numerical calculation andgraphics processing in chemical engineering calculating.