CFD simulation of RTD and mixing in the annular region of a Taylor-Couette contactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6360-6367

  Vedantam, Sreepriya ^a   Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B ^a   Koganti, Sudhir B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

DISPERSION NUMBER; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); TAYLOR-COUETTE CONTACTOR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33748761362     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050825n     Document Type: Article

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