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- From: simardr@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Richard Simard)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem
- Subject: Re: A strange ODE from "population balance"
- Keywords: population balance, leaching reactor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.232139.17407@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:21:39 GMT
- References: <C169GD.GzM@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA
- Reply-To: simardr@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Richard Simard)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Lines: 66
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- In article <C169GD.GzM@cs.mcgill.ca> filippou@cs.mcgill.ca (Dimitrios FILIPPOU) writes:
- >I'm trying to solve a peculiar problem by a method called "population
- >balance" (sth. like "mass balance") and I'm having difficulties
- >solving an ODE, where I thought I wouldn't have any problem at all.
- >
- > dn/dr + (-1/tu)n = (-1/tu) N delta(r-r*) (2)
- >
- >When I try to solve this ODE by Laplace transformations, I get the
- >following solution
- >
- > /
- > | 0, for r < r*
- >n(r) = | (5)
- > | (-N/ut) exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r >= r*
- > \
- >
- >
- >This can not be true; I cann't have a NEGATIVE answer!
- >Intuition says that the solution is exactly the opposite
- >
- >
- > /
- > | (N/ut) exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r <= r*
- >n(r) = | (6)
- > | 0, for r > r*
- > \
- >
-
- ******************************************************************
-
- The solution to (2) is found like this:
-
- - for r < r* or r > r*, (2) becomes:
-
- dn/dr + (-1/tu)n = 0
-
- with solution:
-
- n(r) = c1 exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r < r*
-
- = c2 exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r > r*
-
- where c1 , c2 are constants of integration
-
- - now integrate (2) with respect to r over an infinitesimal
- interval of width d, containing r*, and then let d -> 0.
- Obtain:
-
- n(r*+) - n(r*-) = (-1/tu) N
-
- which fixes c2 as a function of c1 and the size of the jump
- in the function at r*. c1 is fixed by one initial condition.
-
- The general solution of (2):
-
- n(r) = c1 exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r < r*
-
- = (c1 - N/tu) exp{(r-r*)/tu}, for r > r*
-
- As you can see, both (5) and (6) are particular solutions
- of this ODE with different initial condition.
-
-
-
- --
- From: simardr@iro.umontreal.ca
-