Conditional fluxes acceleration

However, in order to use (6.19) to solve for the joint PDF, closures must be supplied for the conditional acceleration and reaction/diffusion terms. For simplicity, we will refer to these terms as the conditional fluxes. 

It is characteristic for the actual diffusion in electrolyte solutions that the individual species are not transported independently. The diffusion of the faster ions forms an electric field that accelerates the diffusion of the slower ions, so that the electroneutrality condition is practically maintained in solution. Diffusion in a two-component solution is relatively simple (i.e. diffusion of a binary salt—see Section 2.5.4). In contrast, diffusion in a three-component electrolyte solution is quite complicated and requires the use of equations such as (2.1.2), taking into account that the flux of one electrically charged component affects the others. 

Bernath (1960) also studied the orientation effect on the CHF and found that the critical flux from a vertical heater is only about 75% of that of a horizontal heater under the same conditions. Further discussion of the latter effect is given in the section on the related effect of acceleration. 

In transported PDF methods (Pope 2000), the closure model for A, V, ip) will be a known function26 ofV. Thus, (U,Aj) will be closed and will depend on the moments of U and their spatial derivatives.27 Moreover, Reynolds-stress models derived from the PDF transport equation are guaranteed to be realizable (Pope 1994b), and the corresponding consistent scalar flux model can easily be found. We shall return to this subject after looking at typical conditional acceleration and conditional diffusion models. 

We shall see that a conditional acceleration model in the form of (6.48) is equivalent to a stochastic Lagrangian model for the velocity fluctuations whose characteristic correlation time is proportional to e/k. As discussed below, this implies that the scalar flux (u,

joint velocity, composition PDF level, and thus that a consistent scalar-flux transport equation can be derived from the PDF transport equation. 

Table IV exhibits data recorded for several typical examples tested under conditions described. A nominal 100 ppm active chlorine was selected as an accelerated test of chlorine sensitivity. Over 2000 hours there is a slight measurable decline in rejection with no significant change in flux. The pH of the test solution is typically 7.5-8.5 in order to maintain a reasonably stable concentration of hypochlorite ion. Tests are in progress at an acid pH of 5-6 in a test loop in which the reservoir is not sealed under pressure. Therefore a stable concentration of chlorine is difficult to maintain due to the evolution of chlorine gas. It is possible for a change in the rate of degradation to occur due to a change in chemical mechanism of attack. This will be evaluated in the near term.

If the boundary conditions are zero flux or fixed composition, the last term vanishes. Comparison with the L2 inner product reveals that for evolution according to the diffusion equation, c(x,t) changes so that 5tot (total entropy acceleration ) is its most negative. Thus, entropy production, which is always positive, decreases in time as rapidly as possible when dc/dt [Pg.80]

Wagner enhancement factor — describes usually the relationships between the classical - diffusion coefficient (- self-diffusion coefficient) of charged species i and the ambipolar - diffusion coefficient. The latter quantity is the proportionality coefficient between the - concentration gradient and the - steady-state flux of these species under zero-current conditions, when the - charge transfer is compensated by the fluxes of other species (- electrons or other sort(s) of -> ions). The enhancement factors show an increasing diffusion rate with respect to that expected from a mechanistic use of -> Ficks laws, due to an internal -> electrical field accelerating transfer of less mobile species [i, ii]. 

A possible softening mechanism ia illustrated schematically in Figure 4A. Temperature excursions at the extrudate surface may accelerate the fluxing of vanadium pentoxide (ref. 10) and increase its interaction with other deposited nretals. Aliunlnuin sulfate, absent in the fines, may have decomposed at the particle surface due to the high temperature conditions. If decomposition did occur, temperatures would have been in excess of about 1400 F, and such conditions covild promote the collapse or sintering of the catalyst mesopores (refs. 11,12). Within the extrudate interior, however, conditions were apparently such to stabilize vanadium pentoxide, aluminum sulfate, and the catalyst mesopotes. 

Fig. 4.35. Particle size-dependent bistability and hysteresis. On model system I (500-nm EBL-fabricated particles), the CO oxidation shows a perfectly stable bistability behavior. On the time scale accessible by the experiment (>10 s), we can arbitrarily switch between the two states by pulsing either pure CO or O2 (a and d). For the model system II (6-nm particles), a very slow transition toward a single global state is observed in the transition region between the CO- and O-rich reaction regimes (b and e). This behavior is assigned to fluctuation-induced transitions, which are accelerated by the presence of defect sites. For the smallest particles of the model system III (1.8 nm), a globally monostable kinetics is rapidly established under all conditions (c and f). For all experiments, the total flux of CO and O2 beams at the sample position was equivalent to a local pressure of 10" Pa. The surface temperature in (a-c) was 400 K and in (d-f) 415 K (from [147])...

Counter-ions diffuse rapidly compared with the surface active species, but the build-up of the electric fields at the interface modifies the transport in such a way that it accelerates the slowly diffusing species and decelerate the rapidly diffusing ones so that finally the fluxes of each are equal. Thus, the condition of approximate equality of the currents of adsorbing ions and counter-ions is provided by the appearance of an excessive surface charge the sign of which coincides with that of the fast-diffiising ions. 

In order to be consistent with the Bohm criterion for ions, the sheath edge is defined as the point where the ions have been accelerated (presumably by the presheath electric field. Fig. 5) to the Bohm velocity, i.e. the presheath is included as part of the bulk plasma. The Bohm flux also provides a boundary condition (applied at the wall because of the thinness of the sheath) for the positive ion continuity equation. The negative ion density is assumed zero at the walls. 

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