An accelerated technique for solving a coupled system of differential equations for a catalytic converter in interphase heat transfer

Abstract

This paper deals with an accelerated iterative procedure for a coupled system of partial differential equations arising from a catalytic converter model. Based on the main theorem, a finite difference based numerical method is developed. The monotone property as well as the convergence analysis and the error estimate of the proposed finite difference scheme are proved theoretically. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is illustrated by providing a comparative numerical study with the existing method. The proposed iterative procedure reduces the number of iterations at least by forty percent for certain benchmarks available in the literature. © 2016 Elsevier Inc.