Numerical modeling of flow in a vertical cooling crystallizer

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 148-154

  Sima, M A ^a   Harris, J A ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY;

CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM; VERTICAL COOLING CRYSTALLIZER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032662806     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2821995     Document Type: Article

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