In several areas of
engineering, it is
possible to put real problems in mathematical functions; when we represent a problem with variables in the
form of function, we were
able to extract various information from it. This paper compared two different
mathematical methods, being the finite difference method and the Fourth Order
Range-Kutta method, to analyze the concentration and temperature of the water
flow inside a tubular reactor. These results were compared with the analytical
and experimental results of the problem, demonstrating that the Fourth Order
Range-Kutta method was more advantageous than the finite difference method.
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