A study of turbulent mixing of confined impinging streams using a new composite turbulence model

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 4998-5004

  Devahastin, Sakamon ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENT MIXING;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CONFINED SPACE; JET FLOW; JET IMPINGEMENT; MIXING; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0035980380     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie010153a     Document Type: Article

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