Tracking advective flow through floc interior

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 540-546

  Wu, Rome Ming ^a   Tsou, Gian Wei ^a   Yen, Pei Shan ^a   Lee, Duu Jong ^a   Peng, Xiao Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Advection; Floc; Permeability

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION FLOW;

BUBBLE FORMATION; FLOCCULATION; POLYELECTROLYTES;

FLOW OF WATER;

ADVECTION; FLOC; FLUID FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0036612556     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.35.540     Document Type: Article

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