Numerical simulation of gas-liquid dynamics in cylindrical bubble column reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 5071-5083

  Sanyal, Jayanta ^a   Vásquez, Sergio ^a   Roy, Shantanu ^b   Dudukovic, M P ^b  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic slip mixture model; Axisymmetric simulation; Bubble columns; Euler Euler model; FLUENT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAMMA RAYS; KINETIC ENERGY; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

ALGEBRAIC SLIP MIXTURE MODEL; COMPUTER AUTOMATED RADIOACTIVE PARTICLE TRACKING; CYLINDRICAL BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS; EULER-EULER MODEL; GAS HOLDUP;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; BUBBLY FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0033232060     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00235-3     Document Type: Article

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