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Although the Arrhenius equation does not predict rate constants without parameters obtained from another source, it does predict the temperature dependence of reaction rates. The Arrhenius parameters are often obtained from experimental kinetics results since these are an easy way to compare reaction kinetics. The Arrhenius equation is also often used to describe chemical kinetics in computational fluid dynamics programs for the purposes of designing chemical manufacturing equipment, such as flow reactors. Many computational predictions are based on computing the Arrhenius parameters. 

Four methods for industrial air technology design are presented in this chapter computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermal building-dynamics simulation, multizone airflow models, and integrated airflow and thermal modeling. In addition to the basic physics of the problem, the methods, purpose, recommended applications, limitations, cost and effort, and examples are pro vided. 

In practice, the process regime will often be less transparent than suggested by Table 1.4. As an example, a process may neither be diffusion nor reaction-rate limited, rather some intermediate regime may prevail. In addition, solid heat transfer, entrance flow or axial dispersion effects, which were neglected in the present study, may be superposed. In the analysis presented here only the leading-order effects were taken into account. As a result, the dependence of the characteristic quantities listed in Table 1.5 on the channel diameter will be more complex. For a detailed study of such more complex scenarios, computational fluid dynamics, to be discussed in Section 2.3, offers powerful tools and methods. However, the present analysis serves the purpose to differentiate the potential inherent in decreasing the characteristic dimensions of process equipment and to identify some cornerstones to be considered when attempting process intensification via size reduction. 

The most commonly used computer fire models simulate the consequences of a fire in an enclosure. Zone models, as well as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models, are used for this purpose. While they are in wide use, enclosure models have limited application in assessing hazards in the petrochemical industry. They are briefly described in this Appendix for general reference purposes. 

Harwell Laboratory. Ceneral-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Code. United Kingdom, Harwell Laboratory. 

Software In view of the rigor involved in numerical solution, many commercial software packages have been developed that serve the purpose of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Appendix 2. A gives a listing of sources for various commercial as well as free CFD codes. These CFD codes may be broadly categorized into either finite volume method based or finite element method based. For a detailed account of computational methods, see the books by Patankar (1980), Ferziger and Peric (2002), Ranade (2002), Chen (2005), Reddy (2005), and so forth. 

The governing equations were discretized using a finite volume method and solved using a general-purpose computational fluid dynamic code. The computational domains are divided into a finite number of control volumes (cells). All variables are stored at the centroid of each cell. Interpolation is used to express variable values at the control volume surface in terms of the control volume center values. Stringent numerical tests were performed to ensure that the... 

The computational or analytical prediction of the current, species, and temperature distributions in a fuel cell can be generated by extension of the basic concepts of this text into multidimensional models with various levels of complexity and solved using the tools of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Models of various complexity abound in the literature, and commercial packages now exist from several CFD software developers for this purpose. 

CAD is frequently used in conjunction with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) where air- or gasflow is involved. For illustrative purposes, some literature on CFD, as a component of CAD, follows. 

Spray characteristics are those fluid dynamic parameters that can be observed or measured during Hquid breakup and dispersal. They are used to identify and quantify the features of sprays for the purpose of evaluating atomizer and system performance, for estabHshing practical correlations, and for verifying computer model predictions. Spray characteristics provide information that is of value in understanding the fundamental physical laws that govern Hquid atomization. 

Until this point we have limited our thermodynamic description to simple (closed) systems. We now extend our analysis considering an open system. In this case the material control volume framework might not be a convenient choice for the fluid dynamic model formulation because of the computational effort required to localize the control volume surface. The Eulerian control volume description is often a better choice for this purpose. 

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