Numerical elucidation of three-dimensional problems in the chemical engineering graduate curriculum

  • Housam Binous*
  • , Slim Kaddeche
  • , Ali Abdennadher
  • , Ahmed Bellagi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We illustrate in the present paper how steady-state and unsteady-steady three-dimensional transport phenomena problems can be solved using the Chebyshev orthogonal collocation technique. All problems are elucidated using the ubiquitous software: MATLAB®. The treated case studies include: (1) unsteady-state heat conduction in a parallelepiped body, (2) quenching of a brick, (3) transient diffusion of a colorant in a liquid, and (4) steady-state natural convection in an enclosure. Whenever possible, the results obtained with the spectral method are bench-marked against the analytical solution in order to validate the proposed numerical technique.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)866-875
Number of pages10
JournalComputer Applications in Engineering Education
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2016

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Keywords

  • MATLAB®
  • chebyshev polynomials
  • graduate-level education
  • momentum—heat—mass transfer
  • numerical methods
  • orthogonal collocation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Education
  • General Engineering

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