NUMERICAL SOLUTION FOR THE TRANSPORT EQUATIONS IN THIN-LAYER ELECTRODEPOSITION USING A FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Pages 25-30
Paul Barvinschi, Adrian Neculae
Abstract
A realistic model describing the ionic transport by diffusive, migratory and convective motion in thin-layer electrodeposition is analyzed. The model equations (Nernst-Planck, Poisson and Navier-Stokes) are written in terms of some dimensionless quantities. Ionic concentration, velocity pattern and stream function profiles are calculated using a finite element method. Numerical results are compared with experimental ones and very good agreement is obtained.