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Pressure Swing Adsorption: Solve coupled partial differential equation system with ODE-Solver and Method of Lines
Asked by Robert Anhalt on 21 Feb 2017
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Dear all,

I want to solve the following PDE, which describes Fluid Flow in space and time:

I want to apply the "Method of Lines" and ODE-Solver in Matlab to solve the PDE, in order to extend the PDE to coupled PDE-Systems shown in the appendix ("Equation system
with BC 2" & "Equation System with BC 3"). My corresponding MATLAB-code to solve the simplest fluid flow is:

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% clear all; clc;

%Parameters:
v=0.1; %velocity m/s
%Boundary Conditions:
C_BC=5;% BC for space x=0
%%
L=1; %space length
n=50; %space points
dx=L/n; %space intervall
%Initial Condition:
for i=1:n
u0(i)=0;
end
%%
t0=0; %lower bound for time
tf=8; %upper bound for time
m=50; %time points
tspan=linspace(t0,tf,m); %time vector
[t,u]=ode15s(@(t,u)Fluid_Flow(u,n,v,C_BC,dx),tspan,u0);
%%
for i=1:n
if i==1
space(i) = 0;
else
space(i) = space(i-1)+dx ;
end
end
%concatenate the solution variable/vector
for i=1:n
if i==1
C=u(:,1) ;
else
C=cat(2,C,u(:,i));
end
end
h=surf(space,t,C);
set(h,'LineStyle','none');
xlabel('space x')
ylabel('time t')
zlabel('Concentration C')
%%
function ut=Fluid_Flow(u,n,v,C_BC,dx)
for i=1:n
if(i==1)
ut(i)= -1*v*(u(i)-C_BC)/dx;
elseif (i==n)
ut(i)=0;
else
ut(i)= -1*v*(u(i)-u(i-1))/dx;
end
end
ut=ut';
end

I expect to get a "sharp" plug-flow of fluid, since there is no diffusion-term in the pde. But my visualization shows a "dispersed" flow as you can see in the red marked area in the
following graphic:

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I don't know how to simulate the fluid-flow correctly. Maybe the boundary conditions doesn't fit or there is another profound failure. I would appreciate to get some suggestions and
information, e.g. how to set the BC correctly.

I want to solve the coupled PDE in principle by extending the vector u(i) within the ODE-Solver like in the following function (random function without meaning):

% function ut=Fluid_Flow(u,n,v,C_BC,dx)
for i=1:n
if(i==1)
ut(i) = -1*v*(u(i)-C_BC)/dx;
ut(n+i) = -v*(u(n+i)+C_BC)/dx;
elseif (i==n)
ut(i) =0;
ut(n+i) =0;
else
ut(i) = -1*v*(u(i)-u(i-1))/dx;
ut(n+i) = -v*(u(i)-u(i-1))/(dx^2);
end
end
ut=ut';
end

Initial condition have to be extended in the main-programm as well:

%Initial Condition:
for i=1:n
u0(i) = 0;
u0(n+i) = 0;
end

I'm not sure, if the coupled PDE-system works, if the coupling is executed this way. I would appreciate, if someone could confirm it.

Thank You.

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You need a second-order discretization in space to avoid these artificial diffusion effects.

Take a look at

http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/mb/nagdoc_mb/manual_25_1/pdf/d03/d03intro.pdf

chapter 3.7 for adequate solvers.

Best wishes

Torsten.

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Robert Anhalt on 1 Mar 2017

Thanks a lot for Your suggestion!!

I've reviewed Your provided link! I could find further helpful literature, which deals with artificial diffusion respectively numerical diffusion.

Artificial diffusion is limited, when only the number of space intervalls is increased as you can see in the graphic (I set n=15000 in my code):

But the computation for this method is time-consuming. Hence I will implement a more efficient upwind scheme for space discretization. I hope this will work.

Kind regards

Robert

Torsten on 1 Mar 2017

By the way:

You don't need to distinguish between 1<i<n and i=n in your discretization:

function ut=Fluid_Flow(u,n,v,C_BC,dx)
for i=1:n
if(i==1)
ut(i)= -1*v*(u(i)-C_BC)/dx;
else
ut(i)= -1*v*(u(i)-u(i-1))/dx;
end
end
ut=ut';
end

Best wishes

Torsten.

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