Application of coalescence and breakup models in a discrete bubble model for bubble columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5233-5245

  Van Den Hengel, E I V ^a,b   Deen, N G ^a   Kuipers, J A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP BREAKUP; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

DISCRETE BUBBLE MODELS (DBM); FLUCTUATING VELOCITY; SCALE VELOCITY;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; COALESCENCE; MODEL;

EID: 22944464106     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0492449     Document Type: Article

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