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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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