Second law analysis for a variable viscosity reactive couette flow under arrhenius kinetics

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Makinde, O D ^a   Kobo, N S ^a  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS KINETICS; BEJAN NUMBER; COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS; COUETTE FLOWS; DISTRIBUTION RATIO; FLOW SYSTEMS; FOURTH-ORDER; NEWTON-RAPHSON; PERTURBATION METHOD; RUNGE-KUTTA INTEGRATION ALGORITHMS; SECOND LAW ANALYSIS; SHOOTING METHODS; VARIABLE VISCOSITY; VOLUMETRIC ENTROPY;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VISCOSITY;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955302664     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: 15635147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/278104     Document Type: Article

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