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There is not enough space to describe the properties of this equation. Suffice it to say that the Buckley-Leverett equation has shock-like solutions, where the saturation front is a wave propagating through the reservoir. This combination of an elliptic equation for the total pressure and a parabohc, but nearly hyperbolic equation for the saturation, gives rise to great mathematical interest in two-phase flow though porous media. 

The finite volume method, which returns to the balance equation form of the equations, where one level of spatial derivatives are removed is the method of choice always for the pressure equation and nearly always for the saturation equation. Commercial reservoir simulators are, with the exception of streamline simulators, entirely based on the finite volume method. See [11] for some background on the finite volume method, and [26] for an introduction to the streamline method. The robustness of the finite volume method, as used in oil reservoir simulation, is partly due to the diffusive nature of the numerical error, known as numerical diffusion, that arises from upwind difference methods. An interesting research problem would be to analyse the essential role that numerical diffusion might play in the actual physical modelling process particularly in situations with unstable flow. In the natural formulation, where the character of the problem is not clear, and special methods applicable to hyperbolic, or near hyperbolic problems are not applicable, the finite volume method, in the opinion of the author, is the most trustworthy approach. 

Now consider the other extreme condition where diffusion is rapid relative to chemical reaction [i.e., hT( 1 — a) is small]. In this situation the effectiveness factor will approach unity for both the poisoned and unpoisoned reactions, and we must retain the hyperbolic tangent terms in equation 12.3.124 to properly evaluate Curve C in Figure 12.11 is calculated for a value of hT = 5. It is apparent that in this instance the activity decline is not nearly as sharp at low values of a as it was at the other extreme, but it is obviously more than a linear effect. The reason for this result is that the regions of the catalyst pore exposed to the highest reactant concentrations do not contribute proportionately to the overall reaction rate because they have suffered a disproportionate loss of activity when pore-mouth poisoning takes place. 

In addition to being easier to fit than the hyperbolic Michaelis-Menten equation, Lineweaver-Burk graphs clearly show differences between types of enzyme inhibitors. This will be discussed in Section 4.5. However, Lineweaver-Burk equations have their own distinct issues. Nonlinear data, possibly indicating cooperative multiunit enzymes or allosteric effects, often seem nearly linear when graphed according to a Lineweaver-Burk equation. Said another way, the Lineweaver-Burk equation forces nonlinear data into a linear relationship. Variations of the Lineweaver-Burk equation that are not double reciprocal relationships include the Eadie-Hofstee equation7 (V vs. V7[S]) (Equation 4.14) and the Hanes-Woolf equation8 ([S]/V vs. [S]) (Equation 4.15). Both are... 

At moderate pressures the water line AB is almost vertical and very close to the p axis its slope to the right is due to the excess of the expansion of the liquid by increase of temperature over the reduction due to the increase of pressure. The steam line CD is approximately hyperbolic (the vapour curves CE, DF starting from it are more nearly hyperbolic). According to Rankine CD may be represented by the equations ... 

The computational domain is the unit square in u and v, and this was divided into a 15 x 15 mesh i.e., 225 elements, and 16 x 16 = 256 nodes, so 256 basis functions and 256 residual equations. The Jacobian matrix was banded with a total bandwidth of 35. The first solution computed was the minimal surface, for which the initial estimate was an hyperbolic paraboloid. The nonlinear system of residual equations was solved by Newton iteration on a Cyber 124, each iteration using about 1 second cpu time. For nearly all the surfaces calculated, the mesh was an even mesh over the entire unit square. However, for the surfaces just near the close-packed spheres (CPS) limit, the nodes were evenly spaced in the u-direction but placed as follows in the i -direction i = 0,1/60,1/30,0.05,0.075,0.1,0.15,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,... 

The right-hand side of this equation approximates the curvature-driven motion for the case when the function (f> approximately possesses a hyperbolic tangent profile near the interface in the form... 

For cases when one does not desire the interface to have any curvature-driven motion, the term on the right-hand side is still maintained in order to keep the sharp, hyperbolic tangent profile near the interface however, a so-called counter term is subtracted from the right-hand side in order to cancel the main curvamre-driven flow. The resulting equation then becomes [4]... 

Here 2. is the height of the equimolar dividing surface, and D is a measure of the thickness. Althoi a hyperbolic tangent arises naturally for the penetrable-sphere model (S S.S) and in the van der Waals theory of a system near its gas-liquid critical point (S 9.1) its use here is purely empirical indeed, we shall see in S 7.S that an exponential decay of p(z) at large values of 2 -2. is not correct for a Lennard-Jones potential that runs to r=9c. This equation is, however, a convenient one since it can be fitted to experimental points by inverting it to give... 

The argument of the hyperbolic sine is small near the (it is exacdy zero at the Tja(K)). Equation (14.23) indicates that the rate of the growth/melting is driven by the lowering of the free energy. Am AAy /, while the interfacial mobility is determined by the a for diffusion jumps of the interfacial atoms. Noting that AA... 

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