Modeling the scalar dissipation rate for a turbulent series-parallel reaction

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1929-1938

  Tsai, Kuochen ^a   Fox, Rodney O ^a  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISSIPATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

SCALAR DISSIPATION RATE; SPECTRAL RELAXATION MODEL; TURBULENCE CHEMISTRY INTERACTION; TURBULENT SERIES PARALLEL REACTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030131314     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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