The computed consumption and production rates based on flux balance are fed into the dynamic mass balance model, which are differential balance equations describing the concentration of the extracellular metabolites considered in the model.
The model is to be included in a population balance model which is formulated such as to facilitate the direct future implementation into a full multifluid CFD model.
The anthropogenic heat discharge was estimated with a remote sensing-based surface energy balance model, which was parameterized using land cover, land surface temperature, albedo, and meteorological data.
Model parameters were estimated using the maximum likelihood technique applied to a one-dimensional population balance model, which was solved by the method of classes.
Experimental results (hold-up, drop size distributions) have been compared with the predictions of a drop population balance model, which is based on transport, breakage and coalescence laws.
The analysis is based on a new relatively simple population balance model, which is formulated on a mass basis, and provides first qualitative insights into the nonlinear dynamic behavior of continuous fluidized bed spray granulation processes.
These authors used a diffusive-gravitational equilibrium and thermal balance model, which was applied for a study of the heating of the early thermosphere by photodissociation and ionization processes, exothermic chemical reactions, and cooling by CO2 IR emission in the 15 µm band.
Bubble size distributions in a direct-contact evaporator operating in the quasi-steady-state regime for four different gas superficial velocities, including the homogeneous and heterogeneous regimes, together with the sparger model, were used for estimating the three empirical parameters from the population balance model, which were observed to be functions of the gas superficial velocity.
Balancing realism against the complexity of the model may promote simpler models, which are beneficial for many subsequent analyses.
