The effective diffusivities in porous media with and without nonlinear reactions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1466-1476

  Dadvar, Mitra ^a   Sahimi, Muhammad ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion and nonlinear reaction; Pore network model; Porous media; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS;

COMPLEX CONTINUUM EQUATION; NONLINEAR REACTIONS; PORE NETWORK MODEL;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 33846200425     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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