An integral-spectral approach for convective-diffusive mass transfer with chemical reaction in couette flow mathematical formulation and numerical illustrations

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-27

  Chen, Zheng ^a   Arce, Pedro ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective diffusive transport and reaction; Couette flows with reaction; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors with airy functions; Fourier series; Integral spectral methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION KINETICS;

AIRY FUNCTIONS; COUETTE FLOW; FREDHOLM EQUATION; INTEGRAL SPECTRAL METHOD; STURM LIOUVILLE PROBLEM; VOLTERRA EQUATION;

MASS TRANSFER;

CHEMICAL REACTION; COUETTE FLOW; DIFFUSION-CONVECTION THEORY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0031177781     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-8947(97)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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