A robust algorithm for fixed-bed reactors with steep moving temperature and reaction fronts

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 571-585

  Kulkarni, Milind S ^a   Dudukovic, Milorad P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED-BED; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; REACTIONS; REACTORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL EQUATION; ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; FIXED BED REACTORS; GAS PHASE; NONLINEAR MODEL; REACTION FRONTS; SPATIAL MESH SIZE; STEEP MOVING TEMPERATURE; TIME STEP SIZE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030072183     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00289-8     Document Type: Article

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