A mathematical model to simulate batch sedimentation with compression behavior

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1531-1541

  Pérez, Manuel ^a   Font, Rafael ^a   Pastor, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VELOCITY;

BATCH SEDIMENTATION; SIMULATION LANGUAGE MATLAB;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BATCH SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 0342584697     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(98)00246-4     Document Type: Article

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