Prediction of impact erosion in valve geometries

Wear

Volumn 256, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 927-936

  Wallace, M S ^a   Dempster, W M ^b   Scanlon, T ^b   Peters, J ^c   McCulloch, S ^d  

^a Computational Dynamics Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEL East Kilbride   (United Kingdom)

^d Wood group Controls Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Impact erosion; Slurry flows; Valves

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SLURRIES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

EROSION RATES; FLOW COEFFICIENTS; MASS REMOVAL RATES; SOLID PARTICLES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SLURRY; VALVE;

EID: 2342541867     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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