Heat and mass transfer correlations and bifurcation analysis of catalytic monoliths with developing flows

We review and compare the literature correlations for estimating the heat and mass transfer coefficients as well as pressure drop in catalytic monoliths with simultaneously developing velocity, concentration and temperature profiles. We present accurate correlations for estimating the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers for developing flows with constant flux (slow reaction) and constant wall concentration or temperature (fast reaction) cases for...