Hydrodynamic modeling of three-phase flows through a vertical column

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 4485-4497

  Mitra Majumdar, D ^a   Farouk, B ^a   Shah, Y T ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic modelling; Three phase flows; Vertical column

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

SOLID SOLID INTERACTIONS; THREE PHASE FLOWS;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; THREE-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0031553402     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00293-5     Document Type: Article

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