Discriminating trickle-flow hydrodynamic models: Some recommendations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 554-556

  Larachi, F ^a   Iliuta, I ^b   Al Dahhan, M A ^c   Dudukovic, M P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PRESSURE DROP; WETTING;

PERMEABILITY MODELS; SLIT MODELS; TRICKLE FLOW HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

HOLD-UP; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; PRESSURE DROP;

ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLOW RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; REACTOR;

EID: 0034131779     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990632y     Document Type: Article

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