Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1985, 50, 2697-2714
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19852697
Influence of free convection on the diffusion current to a sphere in a laminar forced flow regime
Arnošt Kimla and Jiří Míčka
Department of Mathematics, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, 166 28 Prague 6
Abstract
The formulation and solution of a boundary value problem is presented, describing the influence of the free convective diffusion on the forced one to a sphere for a wide range of Rayleigh, Ra, and Peclet, Pe, numbers. It is assumed that both the free and forced convection are oriented in the same sense. Numerical results obtained by the method of finite differences were approximated by an empirical formula based on an analytically derived asymptotic expansion for Pe → ∞. The concentration gradient at the surface and the total diffusion current calculated from the empirical formula agree with those obtained from the numerical solution within the limits of the estimated errors.
