Detailed Overview on POLYMATH Software for Chemical Engineering Analysis
by Abdulhalim Musa Abubakar 1,* 
, Bello Iliyasu 2, Zakiyyu Muhammad Sarkinbaka 3
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Modibbo Adama University (MAU), P.M.B 2076, Yola, Adamawa State-Nigeria
2 Department of Mathematics, Modibbo Adama University (MAU), P.M.B 2076, Yola, Adamawa State-Nigeria
3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University Wukari, Faculty of Engineering, P.M.B 1020, Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page # 133-147, 2022; DOI: 10.55708/js0103014
Keywords: POLYMATH, Problem Set, Chemical Engineering Analysis, Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg, ODE
Received: 27 January 2022, Revised: 26 February 2022, Accepted: 07 March 2022, Published Online: 17 March 2022
AMA Style
Abubakar AM, Iliyasu B, Sarkinbaka ZM. Detailed overview on POLYMATH software for chemical engineering analysis. Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences. 2022;1(3):133-147. doi:10.55708/js0103014
Chicago/Turabian Style
Abubakar, Abdulhalim Musa, Bello Iliyasu, and Zakiyyu Muhammad Sarkinbaka. “Detailed Overview on POLYMATH Software for Chemical Engineering Analysis.” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences 1, no. 3 (2022): 133–47. https://doi.org/10.55708/js0103014.
IEEE Style
A. M. Abubakar, B. Iliyasu, and Z. M. Sarkinbaka, “Detailed overview on POLYMATH software for chemical engineering analysis,” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 133–147, 2022.
It is pertinent to highlight areas POLYMATH software is useful for chemical engineering analysis. Its applications had been demonstrated in this paper using 10 Problem Set, in areas that includes transport phenomena, heat transfer, reaction, and bioreaction kinetics to solve differential equations, nonlinear equations, simultaneous linear equations, graphical representation and regression problems arising in these fields using Licensed POLYMATH Software Version 6.10.261. POLYMATH is mostly used by students, teachers and researchers for educational purposes, but however limited in application by engineers in process industries, as more sophisticated softwares are preferred. Incorporating many solution approaches there in the literature for solving mathematical method problems, especially the newly proposed novel Extended Runge-Kutta Method of Order 6 into POLYMATH and the enabling of log-log plots is hereby recommended.
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