Sensitivity Analysis of Closure Relations for Numerical Prediction of Bubbly Flow in a Bubble Column

Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 778-786

  Shimada, Naoki ^a   Tomiyama, Akio ^b   Zun, Iztok ^c   Asano, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Bubbly flow; Computational fluid dynamics; Multi field model; Void fraction

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

BUBBLE-INDUCED TURBULENCE;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

EID: 0942266681     PISSN: 0386216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/kakoronbunshu.29.778     Document Type: Article

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