Advances in the numerical simulation of hydrocyclone classification

Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 309-314

  Averous, J ^a   Fuentes, R ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Ctro Invest Minera y Metalurgica   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; FLOW PATTERNS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOLIDS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

HYDROCYCLONE CLASSIFICATION; PLEXIGLAS HYDROCYCLONE; REYNOLD STRESS MODEL; TURBULENCE MODEL; VELOCITY FLUCTUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031344275     PISSN: 00084433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/cmq.1997.36.5.309     Document Type: Article

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