Seat No: ______________ Enrollment No: ____________________

PARUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
B. Tech. Winter2021- 22 Examination
th
Semester: 4 Date: 28/10/2021
Subject Code: 203103255 Time: 10:30am to 1:00pm
Subject Name: Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering Total Marks: 60
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
4. Start new question on new page.

Q.1 Objective Type Questions - ( Fill in the blanks, one word answer, MCQ-not more than Five in (15)
case of MCQ) (All are compulsory) (Each of one mark)
1. The rate of convergence of Newton Raphson method is
(A) 1.618 (C) 2
(B) 0.5 (D) 1.5
2. Which of the following is incorrect
(A) 135.76 has five significant figures (C) 205.1308 has seven significant figures
(B) 0.00075 has two significant figures (D) 13.4000 has three significant figures
3. Which of the following is an expression for heat equation
(A) 𝑢𝑡 = 𝑐 2 𝑢𝑥𝑥 (C) 𝑢𝑡𝑡 = 𝑐 2 𝑢𝑥𝑥
(B) 𝑢𝑥𝑥 + uyy = 0 (D) 𝑢𝑥𝑥 + 𝑢𝑦𝑦 = 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦)
4. 𝐸 = __________
(A) ∆ − 1 (C) 𝛻 − ∆
(B) ∆ + 1 (D) 𝛻∆
5. 𝑦𝑛+1 = 𝑦𝑛 + ℎ 𝑓 (𝑥𝑛 , 𝑦𝑛 ) is the iterative formula for ________.
(A) Milne’s method (C) Euler’s method
(B) Taylor’s method (D) Modified Euler’s method
6. For the value of 𝑛 = 2 , Newton’s quadrature formula give _________ rule.
7. ∆ − 𝛻 = __________.
8. Second-order Runge-Kutta Method is also known as ____________.
9. A transcendental equation is an equation containing a __________function.
10. To apply __________ rule for numerical integration, the number of sub-intervals must be a
multiple of 3.
11. Error introduced by the omission of significant figures due to computer imperfection is
called _________.
12. Find 𝑛 if 𝑥0 = 0.75835, 𝑥 = 0.759 and ℎ = 0.0001.
13. Two-point Gaussian quadrature formula is exact for polynomials up to degree _________.
14. The 4𝑡ℎ difference of a polynomial of degree 4 is__________.
15. If in the explicit algorithm of heat equation, ℎ = 0.2 and 𝛼 = 0.5, what is the value of 𝑘 ?

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Q.2 Answer the following questions. (Attempt any three) (15)
A) Solve the following system of linear equation by using Gauss Elimination method
8𝑦 + 2𝑧 = −7 , 3𝑥 + 5𝑦 + 2𝑧 = 8 , 6𝑥 + 2𝑦 + 8𝑧 = 26
B) Use the second order R-K method to find an approximate value of 𝑦 , given that
𝑑𝑦
𝑑𝑥
= 𝑥 − 𝑦 2 and 𝑦(0) = 1 at 𝑥 = 0.1 taking step size of 0.1.
C) Find a second-degree polynomial passing through the points (0, 0), (1, 1) and (2, 20) using
Lagrange’s interpolation.
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D) Evaluate∫0 5+4𝑥
𝑑𝑥, with 𝑛 = 10 using Simpson’s 1/3 rule.

Q.3 A) (i) solve the following system by Gauss Seidel method: (05+02)
8𝑥 − 𝑦 + 2𝑧 = 13; 𝑥 − 10𝑦 + 3𝑧 = 17 ; 3𝑥 + 2𝑦 + 12𝑧 = 25.
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(ii) Find an LU-decomposition of [ ]
−6 −4
1 𝑑𝑥 (06+02)
B) (i) Evaluate∫−1 by the one point, two points and three-point Gaussian formula.
1+𝑥 2

(ii) Explain Inherent Error and Truncation Error.

OR
B) (i) Using Newton’s forward interpolation formula, find the value of 𝑓 (1.6). (05+03)
𝑥 1 1.4 1.8 2.2
𝑓(𝑥) 3.49 4.82 5.96 6.5

𝑑𝑦
(ii) Using Euler’s method, find𝑦(0.1)given that 𝑑𝑥
= 𝑦 + 𝑥 , 𝑦(0) = 1 with ℎ = 0.05.

Q.4 A) Find a real root between 0 and 1 of the equation 𝑒 𝑥 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑥 = 1, correct up to four decimal (07)
places, by using Newton-Raphson’s method.
OR
A) Solve 𝑥 = 𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑥 by the bisection method correct to two decimal places. (07)
5.2 (05+03)
B) (i) Evaluate∫4 𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑥 𝑑𝑥 , using the trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s 3/8 rule, take ℎ = 0.2
(ii) Prove that ∆= 𝐸𝛻 = ∆𝐸

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