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The basic scheme for the numerical solution is the same as that used for the 1 -D model, except that in this case the solid temperature field used to solve the DAE system for each monolith channel must be calculated from the three-dimensional solid-phase energy balance equation. The three-dimensional energy balance equation can be solved by a nonlinear finite element solver (such as ABAQUS) for the solid-phase temperature field while a nonlinear finite difference solver for the DAE system calculates the gas-phase temperature and... 

The computational procedure can now be explained with reference to Fig. 19. Starting from points Pt and P2, Eqs. (134) and (135) hold true along the c+ characteristic curve and Eqs. (136) and (137) hold true along the c characteristic curve. At the intersection P3 both sets of equations apply and hence they may be solved simultaneously to yield p and W for the new point. To determine the conditions at the boundary, Eq. (135) is applied with the downstream boundary condition, and Eq. (137) is applied with the upstream boundary condition. It goes without saying that in the numerical procedure Eqs. (135) and (137) will be replaced by finite difference equations. The Newton-Raphson method is recommended by Streeter and Wylie (S6) for solving the nonlinear simultaneous equations. In the specified-time-... 

The dynamic analysis itself is then performed by one of a number of different methods ranging from simple chart or equation solutions to complex nonlinear finite clement analysis. Analysis methods are covered in Chapter 6. The purpose of this step is to compute member deformations and reactions. 

Digital simulation is a powerful tool for solving the equations describing chemical engineering systems. The principal difficulties are two (1) solution of simultaneous nonlinear algebraic equations (usually done by some iterative method), and (2) numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (using discrete finite-difference equations to approximate continuous differential equations). 

The reason for constructing this rather complex model was that even though the mathematical equations may be easily set up using the dispersion model, the numerical solutions are quite involved and time consuming. Deans and Lapidus were actually concerned with the more complicated case of mass and heat dispersion with chemical reactions. For this case, the dispersion model yields a set of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations whose solution is quite formidable. The finite-stage model yields a set of differential-double-difference equations. These are ordinary differential equations, which are easier to solve than the partial differential equations of the dispersion model. The stirred-tank equations are of an initial-value type rather than the boundary-value type given by the dispersion model, and this fact also simplifies the numerical work. 

This spreadsheet solves the problem of a stagnation flow in a finite gap with the stagnation surface rotating. This problem requires the solution of a nonlinear system of differential equations, including the determination of an eigenvalue. The problem and the difference equations are presented and discussed in Section 6.7. The spreadsheet is illustrated in Fig. D.7, and a cell-by-cell description follows. 

Equations (30), (31), and (32) are all highly nonlinear differential equations, so we will solve them by replacing derivatives with finite differences and use a high-speed digital computer to solve the resulting difference equations. 

The set of nonlinear dimensionless finite-difference equations with their associated boundary conditions that have been presented above are solved iteratively starting with guessed values of the variables at all points. The procedure, therefore, involves the following steps ... 

Note that thermodynamic temperatures must be used in radiation heat transfer calculations, and ail temperatures should be expressed in K or R when a boundary condition involves radiation to avoid mistakes. We usually try to avoid the radiation boundary condition even in numerical solutions since it causes the finite difference equations to be nonlinear, wlu ch are more difficult to solve. 

A powerful tool for EM modeling and inversion is the integral equation (IE) method and the corresponding linear and nonlinear approximations, introduced in the previous chapter. One important advantage which the IE method has over the finite difference (FD) and finite element (FE) methods is its greater suitability for inversion. Integral equation formulation readily contains a sensitivity matrix, which can be recomputed at each inversion iteration at little expense. With finite differences, however, this matrix has to be established anew on each iteration at a cost at least equal to the cost of the full forward simulation. 

Courant R, Isaacson E, Reeves M (1952) On the solution of nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations by finite differences. Comm Pure and Applied Mathematics 5 243-255... 

Equation (25.85), the basis of every atmospheric model, is a set of time-dependent, nonlinear, coupled partial differential equations. Several methods have been proposed for their solution including global finite differences, operator splitting, finite element methods, spectral methods, and the method of lines (Oran and Boris 1987). Operator splitting, also called the fractional step method or timestep splitting, allows significant flexibility and is used in most atmospheric chemical transport models. 

In this chapter, we develop analytical solution methods, which have very close analogs with methods used for linear ODEs. A few nonlinear difference equations can be reduced to linear form (the Riccati analog) and the analogous Euler-Equidimensional finite-difference equation also exists. For linear equations, we again exploit the property of superposition. Thus, our general solutions will be composed of a linear combination of complementary and particular solutions. 

Very few nonlinear equations yield analytical solutions, so graphical or trial-error solution methods are often used. There are a few nonlinear finite difference equations, which can be reduced to linear form by elementary variable transformation. Foremost among these is the famous Riccati equation... 

It is necessary to note the essential physical difference between the system (9) and its asymptotic approximation at <5 0 that is the equation (14). The system (9) at finite values S describes the physical waves and is suitable to comparison with experiments. The asymptotic equation (14) simulates the mathematical waves of unbounded length and infinitesimal amplitude and is not included parameters connecting with experimental conditions. This circumstance defines the preference of (9) before (14). It is important to note that mathematical model for nonlinear waves is reduced to single equation in the limiting case (5 0 only. That model includes a system of two equations for finite S values. 

A digital computer by its very nature deals internally with discrete-time data or numerical values of functions at equally spaced intervals determined by the sampling period. Thus, discrete-time models such as difference equations are widely used in computer control applications. One way a continuous-time dynamic model can be converted to discrete-time form is by employing a finite difference approximation (Chapra and Canale, 2010). Consider a nonlinear differential equation. 

Tht finite-difference method replaces the derivatives in the differential equations with finite difference approximations at each point in the interval of integration, thus converting the differential equations to a large set of simultaneous nonlinear algebraic equations. To demonstrate this method, we use, as before, the set of two differential equations ... 

Nonlinear partial differential equations by finite difference mefliods... 

The shooting method can be applied to a wide range of BVPs involving both linear and nonlinear differential equations and boundary conditions. However, this approach is not always the best method for solving such problems, espeeially for highly nonlinear differential equations which are the major emphasis of this book. For many such BVPs the method of finite difference equations is the most appropriate solution technique as this approach tends to solve for all solution points simultaneously. This technique is developed in Section 11.5. However, before going to that approach, the next section discusses a type of engineering... 

The modeling of the current distribution in a general-geometry cell nearly always requires a numerical solution. The following discussion focuses on the thin boundary layer approximation, with the overpotential components lumped within a thin boundary layer which may be of a varying thickness. The Laplace equation for the potential with nonlinear boundary conditions must be solved. Similar considerations typically apply to the more comprehensive solution of the Nernst-Planck equation (10) however, the need to account for the convective fluid flow in the latter case makes the application of the boundary methods more complex. We focus our brief discussion on the most common methods the finite-difference method, the finite-element method, and the boundary-element method, schematically depicted in Fig. 4. Since the finite-difference method is the simplest to implement and the best known technique, it is discussed in somewhat more detail. 

The finite-element technique is based on dividing the cell domain into polygonal sections. The potential within each of the elements is assumed to be a linear combination of the value at the vertices. However, unlike the finite-dilference method, which solves the finite-difference approximation of the Laplace equation, the finite-elements method seeks a solution for the potential distribution within the cell, which best fits the Laplace equation and the boundary conditions. The degree of accuracy is similar to that of the finite-difference method however, curved boundaries and narrow corners can be described with more precision and ease. On the other hand, the presence of electrochemical nonlinear boundary conditions leads to ill-conditioned matrix equations which are more difficult to solve than the finite-difference system. 

Computer simulation of the reactor kinetic hydrodynamic and transport characteristics reduces dependence on phenomenological representations and idealized models and provides visual representations of reactor performance. Modem quantitative representations of laminar and turbulent flows are combined with finite difference algorithms and other advanced mathematical methods to solve coupled nonlinear differential equations. The speed and reduced cost of computation, and the increased cost of laboratory experimentation, make the former increasingly usehil. 

Errors are proportional to At for small At. When the trapezoid rule is used with the finite difference method for solving partial differential equations, it is called the Crank-Nicolson method. The implicit methods are stable for any step size but do require the solution of a set of nonlinear equations, which must be solved iteratively. The set of equations can be solved using the successive substitution method or Newton-Raphson method. See Ref. 36 for an application to dynamic distillation problems. 

Simulation of Dynamic Models Linear dynamic models are particularly useful for analyzing control-system behavior. The insight gained through linear analysis is invaluable. However, accurate dynamic process models can involve large sets of nonlinear equations. Analytical solution of these models is not possible. Thus, in these cases, one must turn to simulation approaches to study process dynamics and the effect of process control. Equation (8-3) will be used to illustrate the simulation of nonhnear processes. If dcjdi on the left-hand side of Eq. (8-3) is replaced with its finite difference approximation, one gets ... 

The partial differential equations describing the catalyst particle are discretized with central finite difference formulae with respect to the spatial coordinate [50]. Typically, around 10-20 discretization points are enough for the particle. The ordinary differential equations (ODEs) created are solved with respect to time together with the ODEs of the bulk phase. Since the system is stiff, the computer code of Hindmarsh [51] is used as the ODE solver. In general, the simulations progressed without numerical problems. The final values of the rate constants, along with their temperature dependencies, can be obtained with nonlinear regression analysis. The differential equations were solved in situ with the backward... 

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