Eulerian simulations of bubble columns operating at elevated pressures in the churn turbulent flow regime

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 21-22, 2001, Pages 6249-6258

  Krishna, R ^a   Van Baten, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backmixing; Bubble columns; Bubble rise velocity; Churn turbulent flow regime; Computational fluid dynamics; Large bubbles; Pressure influence; Small bubbles

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EULERIAN SIMULATIONS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HIGH PRESSURE APPLICATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0035940704     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(01)00274-3     Document Type: Article

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