Parallelization and performance optimization of a dynamic PDE fixed bed reactor model for practical applications

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1585-1597

  Lindborg, Håvard ^a   Eide, Vegard ^a   Unger, Steffen ^b   Henriksen, Siren T ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Inst Comp Arch Software Technol   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD; Model parallelization; Model performance optimization; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON EQUATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; MULTI-PHASE REACTORS; PARALLELIZATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER CONTROL; FIXED BED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 2442478516     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2003.12.009     Document Type: Article

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