Unsteady radiative heat transfer within a suspension of ZnO particles undergoing thermal dissociation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 7029-7035

  Lipinski W ^a   Thommen, D ^a   Steinfeld, A ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Radiative transfer; Solar chemistry; Thermal dissociation; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME FRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

MIE THEORY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DISSOCIATION;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 33748769556     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.07.037     Document Type: Article

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