Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.43, No.15, 4394-4404, 2004
Integrated framework for the numerical solution of multicomponent population balances. 2. The split composition distribution method
The full multicomponent population dynamic equation is developed for systems with coagulation and solved using the split composition distribution method. A full discussion of the origins of this method and its advantages over conventional methods is followed by a complete and rigorous explanation of its numerical implementation. The Wiener expansion is introduced as a method for representing compositional variation in a number density distribution that is solved by orthogonal collocation on finite elements. Results are obtained by numerical integration using fifth-order Runge-Kutta and favorably compared to analytical results.