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The non‐adiabatic tubular reactor: Stability considerations
Author(s) -
Varma Arvind,
Amundson Neal R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450510411
Subject(s) - adiabatic process , steady state (chemistry) , stability (learning theory) , transient (computer programming) , eigenvalues and eigenvectors , continuation , computation , set (abstract data type) , mathematics , control theory (sociology) , mechanics , thermodynamics , physics , computer science , chemistry , algorithm , machine learning , artificial intelligence , programming language , operating system , control (management) , quantum mechanics
This paper is a continuation of four previous ones in this journal (1, 2, 3, 4) and is involved with the transient and stability behavior of a non‐adiabatic unpacked tubular reactor. The steady states found earlier are tested for stability both by computing transient profiles and by computing the eigenvalues of the appropriate linearized problem. It is found in all cases that the two computations predict the proper stability behavior. It is shown that in some cases all steady states for a given set of parameters may be unstable and that a unique steady state may give rise to an oscillatory system.