Multi-Scale PDE-Based Design of Hierarchically Structured Porous Catalysts
Acknowledgements Start-up funds for MOC from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as
funds from the Delft Research Centre for Computational Science and Engineering to initiate
this work, are gratefully acknowledged. GW thanks Prof. Schittkowski (from the University of
Bayreuth) for the permission of the use of the optimization package NLPQL.
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