Highly porous sphere moving through centerline of circular tube filled with Newtonian fluid

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5717-5722

  Wu, R M ^a   Lee, D J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computation; Hydrodynamic drag; Porous sphere; Tube

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HYDRODYNAMIC DRAG;

PIPE FLOW;

DRAG; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; NEWTONIAN FLUID; PARTICLE MOTION; PIPE; POROSITY; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

EID: 0032721139     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00116-5     Document Type: Article

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