Continuum Transport and Reaction Model

Developed by H. Liao under the direction of Timothy S. Cale




  • Ideal gases
  • Multi-component diffusivities
  • Homogeneous reactions
  • Heterogeneous reactions
  • Pseudo-steady state
  • Triangulate discretized domain
  • Solved using Galerkin's method on quadratic triangles
  • Coupled with EVOLVE's moving algorithms

This figure is an example domain for the CTRM governing equation and boundary conditions

C: concentration of species i

D: disffusion coefficient of species i in the mixture

Rgi: is the homogeneous rate of generating the i-th species

Liao, H., and T.S. Cale, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A. 12(4),1020 (1994)

H. Liao, Ph.D. Dissertation., Arizona State University, 1995