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Chemical efficiency of reactive microflows with heterogeneous catalysis: a lattice Boltzmann study

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2001

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Succi, S., A. Gabrielli, G. Smith, and E. Kaxiras. 2001. “Chemical Efficiency of Reactive Microflows with Heterogeneous Catalysis: A Lattice Boltzmann Study.” The European Physical Journal Applied Physics 16 (1): 71–84. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2001195.

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We investigate the effects of geometrical micro-irregularities on the conversion efficiency of reactive flows in narrow channels of millimetric size. Three-dimensional simulations, based upon a Lattice-Boltzmann-Lax-Wendroff code, indicate that periodic micro-barriers may have an appreciable effect on the effective reaction efficiency of the device. Once extrapolated to macroscopic scales, these effects can result in a sizeable increase of the overall reaction efficiency.

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