Second-Order Reaction with Diffusion in a Liquid Film

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Gas absorption is often enhanced by a chemical reaction. For instance, acid gases ( and
) are usually eliminated from natural gas by absorption using ethanolamine (
) as a basic solvent.
Contributed by: Housam Binousand Brian G. Higgins (July 2013)
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In the discrete Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto case, the interior points are given by . These points are the extrema of the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind,
.
The Chebyshev derivative matrix at the quadrature points is an
matrix
given by
,
,
for
, and
for
and
,
where for
and
.
The matrix is then used as follows:
and
, where
is a vector formed by evaluating
at
,
, and
and
are the approximations of
and
at the
.
References
[1] P. Moin, Fundamentals of Engineering Numerical Analysis, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
[2] L. N. Trefethen, Spectral Methods in MATLAB, Philadelphia: SIAM, 2000.
[3] M. B. Cutlip and M. Shacham, Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering with Numerical Methods, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
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