Scaling-up and -down in a nature-inspired way

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5011-5019

  Coppens, Marc Olivier ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED PRODUCTS; MULTIPHASE PROCESSES; MULTISCALE MODELING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

SCALING;

EID: 22944460777     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0490482     Document Type: Article

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