Heat and mass transfer correlations and bifurcation analysis of catalytic monoliths with developing flows

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1879-1892

  Gundlapally, Santhosh R ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Monoliths; Sherwood number; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE RISE; AFTER-TREATMENT; ARBITRARY SHAPE; ASYMPTOTIC VALUES; BIFURCATION ANALYSIS; BIFURCATION BEHAVIOR; CATALYST LOADINGS; CATALYTIC MONOLITHS; DEVELOPING FLOW; ENTRY REGION; FAST REACTION; FLOW CONDITION; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MONOLITHS; NEW CORRELATIONS; NUMERICAL VALUES; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; SINGLE PARAMETER; SPACE VELOCITIES; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS; HEAT TRANSFER; IGNITION; INLET FLOW; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 79952454845     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.01.045     Document Type: Article

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