Gas-liquid-solid flow modelling in a bubble column

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-126

  Cartland Glover, G M ^a   Generalis, S C ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Computational fluid dynamics; Mixture models; Reynolds stress turbulence transport; Three phase flow; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; VOLUME FRACTION;

DISCRETE PHASE MOTION; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; THREE-PHASE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0242582852     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(03)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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