Single-particle method for stochastic simulation of coagulation processes

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 963-967

  Vikhansky, Alexander ^a   Kraft, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Monte Carlo; Population balances

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MEMORY RESOURCES; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

COAGULATION;

COAGULATION;

EID: 10644263563     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.09.062     Document Type: Article

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