Solution of Packed-Bed Heat-Exchanger Models by Orthogonal Collocation Using Piecewise Cubic Hermite Functions.

Abstract

Orthogonal collocation using piecewise cubic Hermite functions is used to solve the elliptic partial differential equations arising from pseudo-continuum models of heat transfer in a packed bed. Problems arising from a discontinuity in the wall boundary condition and from the semi-infinite domain of the differential operator are discussed. Comparison is made between the computed solution and experimental results. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA093630

Entities

People

  • Anthony G. Dixon

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Coefficients
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Conductivity
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Mathematics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Solid Phases
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)