Advances in robot navigation / / edited by Alejandra Barrera

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910138264903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Rijeka, Croatia : , : InTech, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 953-51-5539-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 629.892
• Soggetti: Robotics; Mobile robots
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Scaling analysis in modeling transport and reaction processes : a systematic approach to model building and the art of approximation / / William B. Krantz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019534503321
• Autore: Krantz William B. <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [New York], : AIChE; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007
• ISBN: 9786610916856; 9781280916854; 1280916850; 9780470121931; 0470121939; 9780470121924; 0470121920
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (547pages)
• Disciplina: 530.13/8
• Soggetti: Transport theory - Mathematics; Chemical reactions - Mathematical models; Scaling laws (Statistical physics); Approximation theory; Measurement
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: SCALING ANALYSIS IN MODELING TRANSPORT AND REACTION PROCESSES; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation for Using Scaling Analysis; 1.2 Organization of the Book; 2 Systematic Method for Scaling Analysis; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Mathematical Basis for Scaling Analysis; 2.3 Order-of-One Scaling Analysis; 2.4 Scaling Alternative for Dimensional Analysis; 2.5 Summary; 3 Applications in Fluid Dynamics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Fully Developed Laminar Flow; 3.3 Creeping- and Lubrication-Flow Approximations; 3.4 Boundary-Layer-Flow Approximation; 3.5 Quasi-Steady-State-Flow Approximation3.6 Flows with End and Sidewall Effects; 3.7 Free Surface Flow; 3.8 Porous Media Flow; 3.9 Compressible Fluid Flow; 3.10 Dimensional Analysis Correlation for the Terminal Velocity; 3.11 Summary; 3.E Example Problems; 3.P Practice Problems; 4 Applications in Heat Transfer; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Steady-State Heat Transfer with End Effects; 4.3 Film and Penetration Theory Approximations; 4.4 Small Biot Number Approximation; 4.5 Small Peclet Number Approximation; 4.6 Boundary-Layer or Large Peclet Number Approximation; 4.7 Heat Transfer with Phase Change; 4.8 Temperature-Dependent Physical Properties4.9 Thermally Driven Free Convection: Boussinesq Approximation; 4.10 Dimensional Analysis Correlation for Cooking a Turkey; 4.11 Summary; 4.E Example Problems; 4.P Practice Problems; 5 Applications in Mass Transfer; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Film Theory Approximation; 5.3 Penetration Theory Approximation; 5.4 Small Peclet Number Approximation; 5.5 Small Damköhler Number Approximation; 5.6 Large Peclet Number Approximation; 5.7 Quasi-Steady-State Approximation; 5.8 Membrane Permeation with Nonconstant Diffusivity; 5.9 Solutally Driven Free Convection Due to Evapotranspiration5.10 Dimensional Analysis for a Membrane-Lung Oxygenator; 5.11 Summary; 5.E Example Problems; 5.P Practice Problems; 6 Applications in Mass Transfer with Chemical Reaction; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Concept of the Microscale Element; 6.3 Scaling the Microscale Element; 6.4 Slow Reaction Regime; 6.5 Intermediate Reaction Regime; 6.6 Fast Reaction Regime; 6.7 Instantaneous Reaction Regime; 6.8 Scaling the Macroscale Element; 6.9 Kinetic Domain of the Slow Reaction Regime; 6.10 Diffusional Domain of the Slow Reaction Regime; 6.11 Implications of Scaling Analysis for Reactor Design6.12 Mass-Transfer Coefficients for Reacting Systems; 6.13 Design of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor; 6.14 Design of a Packed Column Absorber; 6.15 Summary; 6.P Practice Problems; 7 Applications in Process Design; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Design of a Membrane Lung Oxygenator; 7.3 Pulsed Single-Bed Pressure-Swing Adsorption; 7.4 Thermally Induced Phase-Separation Process; 7.5 Fluid-Wall Aerosol Flow Reactor for Hydrogen Production; 7.6 Summary; 7.P Practice Problems; Appendix A Sign Convention for the Force on a Fluid Particle; Appendix B Generalized Form of the Transport Equations
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is unique as the first effort to expound on the subject of systematic scaling analysis. Not written for a specific discipline, the book targets any reader interested in transport phenomena and reaction processes. The book is logically divided into chapters on the use of systematic scaling analysis in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass ; transfer, and reaction processes. An integrating chapter is included that considers more complex problems involving combined transport phenomena. Each chapter includes several problems that are explained in considerable detail. These are followed by se