Some general observations on tubular reactor stability
- 1 December 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
- Vol. 45 (6) , 341-346
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.5450450603
Abstract
A sufficient condition under which a tubular reactor with axial diffusion is globally stable is derived by use of the maximum principle for parabolic equations. It is shown that by use of some topological concepts the asymptotic stability of a steady state can be determined without the necessity of performing any computations. If a unique steady state exists it is asymptotically stable. If three steady states exist, the high and low temperature steady states are asymptotically stable, while the intermediate one is unstable.Keywords
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