TURBULENT CONJUGATE HEAT- AND MASS TRANSFER

L. P. Kholpanova and 
Yu. S. Polyakovb 

UDC 536.24 (0.63)

A model of turbulent heat- and mass transfer with nonlinear 
sources (sinks) that appear as a result of chemical reactions of the 
first and second orders has been developed. The conjugation condition 
(equality of temperatures and local fluxes) at the reactor - coolant 
interface was used for this purpose. A finite-difference numerical 
solution by the alternating direction method is obtained. The influence 
of the coefficients of turbulent viscosity on heat- and mass transfer 
is investigated. The model has been tested on the example of modeling 
fast polymerization processes. It has been established in practical 
calculations of the processes of fast polymerization that instead 
of the model with variable coefficients of transfer and velocities 
of liquid motion one can use its approximation with constant coefficients 
of transfer and velocities of liquid motion.

a Institute of Problems of Chemical 
Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 
142432, Russia; email: kholp@icp.ac.ru; b"USPolyResearch" 
Company, Ashland, Pennsylvania, USA. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 6, pp. 73-85, November-December, 2007. 
Original article submitted August 11, 2006.