A computer model for one-dimensional mass and energy transport in and around chemically reacting particles, including complex gas-phase chemistry, multicomponent molecular diffusion, surface evaporation, and heterogeneous reaction (Q1195129)

A computer time-dependent model is developed to solve several complex chemical reactive flow problems. In this paper the above model is applied to problems related to the combustion of liquid or solid fuel particles surrounded by chemically reacting gases: oxidation of carbon particles, combustion of methanol droplets, vaporization of boron oxide droplets. The time-dependent 1D partial differential equations are discretized by the Galerkin finite element method and then integrated over time with reasonable computational costs. The sensitivity analysis for space-time problems is also performed.