Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 728105, 34 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/728105
Research Article

Adaptive Step-Size Control in Simulation of Diffusive CVD Processes

Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany

Received 3 September 2008; Revised 5 January 2009; Accepted 28 January 2009

Academic Editor: José Roberto Castilho Piqueira

Copyright © 2009 Jürgen Geiser and Christian Fleck. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We present control strategies of a diffusion process for chemical vapor deposition for metallic bipolar plates. In the models, we discuss the application of different models to simulate the plasma-transport of chemical reactants in the gas-chamber. The contribution are an optimal control problem based on a PID control to obtain a homogeneous layering. We have taken into account one- and two-dimensional problems that are given with constraints and control functions. A finite-element formulation with adaptive feedback control for time-step selection has been developed for the diffusion process. The optimization is presented with efficient algorithms. Numerical experiments are discussed with respect to the diffusion processes of the macroscopic model.