Diffusion Reaction Interaction for a Pair of Spheres - ETD ...
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CHAPTER 4<br />
EXACT SOLUTION FOR THE CONSTANT CONCENTRATION<br />
4.1 Introduction<br />
SOURCE – REACTIVE SINK PROBLEM<br />
In Chapter 2 the sink source mutualism like interaction was considered<br />
where the source had a constant surface generation rate (zeroth order kinetics).<br />
The sink in the a<strong>for</strong>ementioned problem was modeled as a first order interfacial<br />
reactor. There are many models where the source medium interface exhibits a<br />
different behavior. In some catalytic conversion examples the source may require<br />
first order or Langmuir Hinshelwood rate constants (Fogler, 1999) while<br />
dissolution processes may involve a constant concentration at the source –medium<br />
interface (Forsten and Lauffenburger, 1992 and Ham, 1958 and 1959). Primary<br />
examples include: crystal growth and coarsening (Voorhees and Schaefer, 1987),<br />
drop coalescence (Lifshitz and Pitaevskii, 1981), electric current and heat flow<br />
(Stoy, 1989b) and constant oxygen concentration at a source <strong>for</strong> delivery to<br />
microorganisms in the remediation <strong>of</strong> contaminated soils (Charackliss and<br />
Marshall, 1990).<br />
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