Nickel solids concentration distribution in a stirred tank

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-189

  Ochieng, Aoyi ^a   Lewis, Alison E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Modelling; Simulation; Solids suspension

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SIZE DETERMINATION; SOLID SOLUTIONS;

LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY (LDV); SOLIDS SUSPENSION; STIRRED TANK;

NICKEL;

EID: 31544462605     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2005.09.028     Document Type: Article

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