Green element description of mass transfer in reacting systems

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 483-498

  Onyejekwe, Okey Oseloka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MASS TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; FLOW REACTOR; GLOBAL COEFFICIENT MATRIX; GREEN IDENTITY;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 0030383689     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407799608915095     Document Type: Article

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