Figure 7.18:

Asymptotic behavior of the effectiveness factor versus Thiele modulus; first-order reaction in spherical pellet.

Code for Figure 7.18

Text of the GNU GPL.

main.m

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% Copyright (C) 2001, James B. Rawlings and John G. Ekerdt
%
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%
% compute the actual phi versus eta
%
Bbig   = 100;
Bsmall = 0.01;
nphi = 100;
phismall = 10^(-2);
phibig = 10^(4);
phi = [logspace(log10(phismall), log10(phibig), nphi)]';

B = Bbig;
etabig = 1./phi.*(1./tanh(3*phi) - 1./(3*phi))./ ...
            ( 1 + (phi./tanh(3*phi) - 1/3)/B );
B = Bsmall;
etasmall = 1./phi.*(1./tanh(3*phi) - 1./(3*phi))./ ...
            ( 1 + (phi./tanh(3*phi) - 1/3)/B );

tmp = [phi  etabig etasmall];

%save -ascii biotasy.dat tmp;
%
% compute the various straight line approximations for asymptotic plots
%

horiz  = [phismall 1;
          sqrt(Bbig) 1];
minus1 = [1 1;
          phibig 1/phibig];
minus2small = [sqrt(Bsmall) 1;
               phibig 1/(phibig*phibig/Bsmall)];
minus2big = [sqrt(Bbig) 1;
             phibig 1/(phibig*phibig/Bbig)];
auxvbl = [horiz minus1 minus2small minus2big];

%save -ascii biotasy_01.dat auxvbl;
save biotasy.dat tmp auxvbl

if (~ strcmp (getenv ('OMIT_PLOTS'), 'true')) % PLOTTING
    loglog (tmp(:,1), tmp(:,2:3), ...
            auxvbl(:,1), auxvbl(:,2), ...
            auxvbl(:,3), auxvbl(:,4), ...
            auxvbl(:,5), auxvbl(:,6), ...
            auxvbl(:,7), auxvbl(:,8));
    axis(10.^[-2 4 -6 .5])
    % TITLE
end % PLOTTING