A tailored strategy for PDE-based design of hierarchically structured porous catalysts

International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-190

  Wang, Gang ^a   Coppens, Marc Olivier ^b   Kleijn, Chris R ^b  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Diffusion reaction equation; Geometrical optimization; Limitations; Multigrid method; Rational design; Reduced gradient method

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GRADIENT METHODS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STEEL ANALYSIS; TESTING;

(001) PARAMETER; COMPUTATIONAL CELLS; CPU TIME; FINITE VOLUMES; FORTRAN (LANGUAGE); GENERAL (CO); GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-GRID SOLVERS; NUMERICAL TESTING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); OPTIMAL CONTROL (OC); OPTIMAL DESIGNS; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE); PORE CHANNELS; POROUS CATALYSTS; SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 46349108619     PISSN: 15431649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.v6.i2.60     Document Type: Article

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