Effect of the finite difference solution scheme in a free boundary convective mass transfer model

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 693-700

  Zabala, Damelys ^a   López de Ramos, Aura L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Finite difference; Free boundary; Implicit method; Mass transfer; Square capillary

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FREE BOUNDARY; IMPLICIT METHOD; SQUARE CAPILLARY;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 34347372687     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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