Mass conservative solution of the population balance equation using the least-squares spectral element method

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 6204-6214

  Zhu, Zhengjie ^a   Dorao, Carlos A ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a  

^a Department of Chemical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKAGE KERNEL; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; CONSTRAINED METHOD; DISCRETIZED SYSTEMS; DISPERSED PHASE; LEAST SQUARE; MASS CONSERVATION; MASS LOSS; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; TWO PHASE MIXTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 77954187880     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900710y     Document Type: Article

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