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bumblebee77
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Hello all:
I'm a thermodynamicist wanting to get into transport modeling. In my reading, I have come across "operator splitting." I'm confused about exactly what this means in the context of transport modeling.
This is probably a silly question, but does it refer to an advective term relative to a diffusive term in a transport equation? Or does it refer to doing a thermodynamics (or equilibration/compositional) step and THEN a fluid flow step?
I have set up my own little example code to model chemical reactions during flow. I first carry out a thermodynamics step to get compositional information and then I perform a flow step. Is this operator splitting??
Thanks in advance for your patience with a rookie!
I'm a thermodynamicist wanting to get into transport modeling. In my reading, I have come across "operator splitting." I'm confused about exactly what this means in the context of transport modeling.
This is probably a silly question, but does it refer to an advective term relative to a diffusive term in a transport equation? Or does it refer to doing a thermodynamics (or equilibration/compositional) step and THEN a fluid flow step?
I have set up my own little example code to model chemical reactions during flow. I first carry out a thermodynamics step to get compositional information and then I perform a flow step. Is this operator splitting??
Thanks in advance for your patience with a rookie!