Simulating sedimentation of liquid drops

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1821-1837

  Waheed, M Adekojo ^a   Henschke, Martin ^b   Pfennig, Andreas ^b  

^a LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drag coefficient; Liquid drop; Liquid liquid extraction; Sedimentation velocity; Vortex

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLUID PROPERTIES; LIQUID DROPS;

SEDIMENTATION;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW PATTERN; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; NEWTONIAN FLUID; SEDIMENTATION; VORTEX;

EID: 1842783338     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.920     Document Type: Article

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