Continuous vs. Discrete Models of Nonadiabatic Monolith Catalysts

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2382-2387

  Groppi, Gianpiero ^a   Tronconi, Enrico ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MONOLITH CATALYSTS; RADIAL THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 0030215807     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420829     Document Type: Article

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