A novel approach for describing mixing effects in homogeneous reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3-6, 2003, Pages 1053-1061

  Chakraborty, Saikat ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective diffusion equation; Homogeneous reactors; Liapunov Schmidt method; Micromixing; Mixing; Spatial averaging

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

BIFURCATION; EQUATION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIXING; REACTOR;

EID: 0037294817     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00647-4     Document Type: Article

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