Gas turbubines, car engines, furnaces are typical examples for such industrial applications. I am interested how turbulent mixing influences the chemical reaction pathways to form PICs, such as soot or chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Separation processes Many separation processes can be described by means of population balances.
Most of them can be mathematically expressed by a transport equation for a one-dimensional density function. Such a transport equation is usually solved directly by a standard numerical method. In the case of multidimensional population balances, appearing when chemical reactions have to be modelled, the numerical expense of standard methods is prohibitive. Stochastic methods seem to be well suited for this particular problem. Both problem fields mentioned above involve stochastic processes.