Stability of tubular reactors

Abstract

This paper investigates the stability of tubular reactors by both theoretical and computational techniques. Liapunov's second method using a Liapunov functional of the general norm is used to show that tubular reactors without diffusion and without temperature effects and reactors with diffusion and without temperature effects are globally, uniformly asymptotically stable. The theorem fails for reactors with temperature effects. The results of computer simulations show that the system with temperature effects is not uni formly stable.