Software for long and repetitive algebra

[James6480]

I hope this is the correct forum, I have read most of the rules and it seemed the best place for this post!

I have a Chemical Engineering problem, in the design of a reactor which has a design equation which I know to be a 5th order polynomial. Deriving this from first principles takes a lot of time, with multiplication of a long list of constants in varying orders to find the coefficients of the quintic equation.

Is there any program anyone can recommend where I can specify groups of constants for example J= k1*k2*k3 and M= k4*k5*k6 then ask it to produce the result of some manipulation on J and M, J*M or JM^5? I have simplified this down to explain but I have a long list of these groupings and if such software existed it would save a lot of time!

Thanks

 

[Filip Larsen]

I am not aware of the particulars of your specific problem, but if you are looking for general purpose software for doing numerical calculations there is a lot of systems out there. The list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numerical_analysis_software should be a good place to start.