WENO scheme with static grid adaptation for tracking steep moving fronts

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3214-3226

  Bouaswaig, Ala Eldin ^a   Engell, Sebastian ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive gridding; Dynamic simulation; Polymer; Population balance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GRIDDING; ADVECTION EQUATIONS; BURGERS' EQUATIONS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; DISCRETE POINTS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; HIGH-ORDER; LOCAL GRADIENTS; MOVING-GRID METHODS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE GROWTH; POPULATION BALANCE; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; STATIC GRID ADAPTATION; UNIFORM GRIDS; WENO SCHEMES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 67349219413     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.03.040     Document Type: Article

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