Partially stirred reactor model: Analytical solutions and numerical convergence study of a PDF/Monte Carlo method

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1798-1823

  Bhave, Amit ^a   Kraft, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Numerical convergence; Partially stirred reactor model; Probability density function Monte Carlo particle method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION KINETICS;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; MASS DENSITY FUNCTIONS (MDF); PARTIALLY STIRRED REACTOR MODEL;

COMBUSTORS;

EID: 6344237428     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827502411328     Document Type: Article

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