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Diffusion-Reaction in a Cylindrical Pore

Simulate diffusion into a cylindrical dead-end pore with an infinitely fast reaction on the wall. The pore has a radius R=1 μmR = 1~\mathrm{\mu m} and a length L=5 μmL = 5~\mathrm{\mu m}. The diffusion coefficient in both radial and axial directions is D=105 m2 s1D = 10^{-5}~\mathrm{m^{2}~s^{-1}}.

Questions:

  1. Provide the governing PDE for the two-dimensional diffusion in the pore.

  2. What are the proper boundary conditions?

  3. Perform the spatial discretization of this (axially symmetric) 2D problem to obtain a matrix-vector equation.

  4. Provide a Python implementation.

Note that the implementation should be consistent with the governing equations and boundary conditions.