Title of article :
Biodegradation Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Studies of Xenobiotic Polymers
Author/Authors :
Watanabe, Masaji Okayama University - Graduate School of Environmental Science, Japan , Kawai, Fusako
Abstract :
An endogenous depolymerization model that include previously introduced model is proposed. It is shown that the model can be transformed into a partial differential equation of hyperbolic type, and that an associated inverse problem to determine a degradation rate problem can be solved with previously developed techniques. Once a degradation rate is found, an initial value problem was solved numerically to simulate the transition of weight distribution.
Keywords :
biodégradation , xenobiotic polymers , depolymerization model
Journal title :
Journal of Engineering Science
Journal title :
Journal of Engineering Science