Prediction of multimodal distributions in breakage processes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2649-2658

  Canu, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COALESCENCE; FUNCTIONS;

BREAKAGE PROCESSES; MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION (PBE); TIME-DEPENDENT UNKNOWN DISTRIBUTION;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 18144368563     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049652c     Document Type: Article

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