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different unit operations, or of different physical mechanisms within one process
unit. The possibilities for extended multiphysics modeling have been modestly
explored with regard to heterogeneous chemical reactors and bioreactors here.
Nevertheless, it is clear that in the coupling available between logical domains,
the extended multiphysics capabilities of FEMLAB can be instrumental in
carrying out even simple models, such as the proper boundary conditions for a
single cell bioreactor or others of the Biot type, which have eluded other
modeling methods.

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