Chemically reacting flows and continuous flow stirred tank reactors: The large diffusivity limit

DOI10.1023/A:1009016408577MaRDI QIDQ1591587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David E. Norman

Publication date 9 December 2001

Published in Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009016408577

zbMATH Keywords

Arrhenius kineticschemically reacting flowscontinuous flow stirred reactorglobal attractorsLaplacianlarge diffusivity limitlinear operatorsNavier-Stokes-Boussinesq approximationNeumann boundary conditionsreaction-diffusion equationsRobin-Neumann boundary conditionsshadow systemspectral analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Combustion (80A25) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Review text

The author considers the Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq approximation to chemically reacting flows, which is governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), and shows that, as chemical and thermal diffusivities go to infinity, the solutions of the corresponding PDEs converge to the solutions of two ordinary differential equations which describe the continuous flow stirred reactor. The same is shown to be true also for the corresponding global attractors if one studies the long-time behaviour of the solutions. The main idea of the analysis is to prove that the Laplacian with mixed Robin-Neumann boundary conditions for chemistry and temperature converges to the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions as diffusivities go to infinity. This is clear intuitively, but the rigorous proof given in the paper requires a fine spectral analysis of the corresponding linear operators.

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