Modelling of a RDC using a combined CFD-population balance approach

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2597-2606

  Vikhansky, Alexander ^a   Kraft, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Coalescence break up; Monte Carlo methods; Multiphase flows

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VOLUME FRACTION;

PHASE VELOCITY; TURBULENCE GENERATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELD; LIQUID-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 2942585065     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.02.016     Document Type: Article

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