Raymond Hu

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady state multiplicity features of porous catalytic pellets, the temperature of which is uniform but different from that of the surrounding, are determined for a zeroth-order reaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady state multiplicity features of porous catalytic pellets are determined for reactions of positive order, and a method is presented for dividing the global parameter space into regions with different number of solutions as well as different bifurcation diagrams of surface temperature vs ambient Thiele modulus.

TL;DR: In this paper, exact uniqueness criteria are presented for a porous catalytic pellet in which a p-th order exothermic reaction occurs using a lumped thermal model, which accounts for intraparticle concentration gradients and assumes that the pellet temperature is uniform but different from that of the surrounding fluid.