7. Perturbation Method Approach

A new approach for the column apparatuses modeling uses convection–diffusion-type models and average-concentration models. All these new types of models (Boyadjiev in Theoretical chemical engineering. Modeling and simulation. Springer, Berlin [1], Doichinova and Boyadjiev in Int J Heat Mass Transf 55:6705–6715 [2], Boyadjiev in J Pure Appl Math: Adv Appl 10:131–150 [3]) are characterized by the presence of small parameters at the highest derivatives. As a result, the model equations have no exact solutions and approximate (asymptotic) solutions have to be obtained (Мищенко and Розов in Дифференциальные уравнения с малым параметром и релаксационные колебания. Изд. “Наука”, Москва [4], O’Malley in Introduction to singular perturbations. Academic Press, New York [5], Boyadjiev et al. in J Eng Thermophys 24:371–380 [6]). In these cases, the use of the conventional software (MATLAB) for solving the model differential equations is difficult and this difficulty may be eliminated by an appropriate combination with the perturbation method.