Numerical modeling of reactive polymer flow in porous media

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1595-1610

  Liu, Honggao ^a   Thompson, Karsten E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinking; Molecular weight distribution; Moments; Polymer transport; Porous media

Indexed keywords

GELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POLYMER FLOWS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

POLYMER;

FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS LINKING; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLOW RATE; GELATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POROSITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0037110973     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(02)00130-8     Document Type: Article

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