A CFD study of unsteady flow in narrow spacer-filled channels for spiral-wound membrane modules

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Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 195-201

  Schwinge, J ^a   Wiley, D E ^a   Fletcher, D F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Feed spacer; Spiral wound membrane module; Unsteady fluid flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS;

MEMBRANE WALL;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERN; MEMBRANE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 0037056714     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)00470-8     Document Type: Article

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