Catalytic converter in an automobile's exhaust system is made up of a finely divided platinum—iridium catalyst (i.e.forming a porous matrix)and provides a platform for exothermic chemical reaction where unburned hydrocarbons completely combust.In this paper, the steady-state solutions of a strongly exother-mic reaction of a viscous combustible fluid (fuel)in a catalytic converter-modelled as a cylindrical pipe filled with a saturated porous medium under Arrhenius kinetics, neglecting reactant consumption, are presented.The Brinkman flow model is employed.Having known the velocity distribution, the nonlinear energy equation is solved using a perturbation technique together with a special type of Hermite—Padé approximants and the important properties of the temperature field including bifurcations and thermal criticality are discussed.
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Makinde, O.D. (2008). Modelling the Thermal Operation in a Catalytic Converter of an Automobile's Exhaust. In: Konaté, D. (eds) Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and e-Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74339-2_4
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