Donor Cell-Finite Element Descriptions of Wire-Duct Precipitator Fields, Charges, and Efficiencies

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 662-670

  Levin, Peter L ^a   Hoburg, James F ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DELAUNAY ALGORITHM; DONOR CELL METHOD; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; VORONOI POLYGONS; WIRE-DUCT ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS;

DUST COLLECTORS;

EID: 0025463349     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: 19399367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.55991     Document Type: Article

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