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The Maxwell–Stefan diffusion (or Stefan–Maxwell diffusion) is a model for describing diffusion in multicomponent systems. The equations that describe these transport processes have been developed independently and in parallel by James Clerk Maxwell [ 1 ] for dilute gases and Josef Stefan [ 2 ] for liquids.
We obtain the distribution of the property i.e. a given two dimensional situation by writing discretized equations of the form of equation (3) at each grid node of the subdivided domain. At the boundaries where the temperature or fluxes are known the discretized equation are modified to incorporate the boundary conditions .
The first well-documented use of this method was by Evans and Harlow (1957) at Los Alamos. The general equation for steady diffusion can easily be derived from the general transport equation for property Φ by deleting transient and convective terms. [1] General Transport equation can be defined as
Lower case denotes the face and upper case denotes node; , , and refer to the "East," "West," and "Central" cell. (again, see Fig. 1 below). Defining variable F as convection mass flux and variable D as diffusion conductance = and =
Following the classical finite volume method framework, we seek to track a finite set of discrete unknowns, = / + / (,) where the / = + (/) and = form a discrete set of points for the hyperbolic problem: + (()) =, where the indices and indicate the derivatives in time and space, respectively.
A nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law is defined through a flux function : + (()) =. In the case of () =, we end up with a scalar linear problem.Note that in general, is a vector with equations in it.
The convection–diffusion equation can be derived in a straightforward way [4] from the continuity equation, which states that the rate of change for a scalar quantity in a differential control volume is given by flow and diffusion into and out of that part of the system along with any generation or consumption inside the control volume: + =, where j is the total flux and R is a net ...
In numerical linear algebra, the alternating-direction implicit (ADI) method is an iterative method used to solve Sylvester matrix equations.It is a popular method for solving the large matrix equations that arise in systems theory and control, [1] and can be formulated to construct solutions in a memory-efficient, factored form.