A numerical method for the simulation of an aggregation-driven population balance system

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1646-1660

  Hackbusch, Wolfgang ^a   John, Volker ^b,c   Khachatryan, Aram ^a   Suciu, Carina ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Calibration of parameters; Convolution; Integro partial differential equation; Population balance systems; Stabilised method

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION KERNELS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; CONVOLUTION INTEGRALS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE ELEMENT SCHEMES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POPULATION BALANCES; STABILISED METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

AGGLOMERATION; CONVOLUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; UREA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84863499542     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2656     Document Type: Article

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