A particle's eye view of crystallizer fluid mechanics

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2475-2493

  Rielly, Chris D ^a,b   Marquis, Andrew J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Computational fluid dynamics; Lagrangian particle tracking; Stirred tanks

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION; FLUID MECHANICS; MIXING; NUCLEATION;

POPULATION BALANCE;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; STIRRED TANK;

EID: 0035938090     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(00)00457-7     Document Type: Article

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