Discrete particle simulation of particle flow in the IsaMill process

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6349-6359

  Jayasundara, C T ^a   Yang, R Y ^a   Yu, A B ^a   Curry, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Xstrata   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRINDING (MACHINING); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY;

ISAMILL PROCESS; MIXING PATTERN; PARTICLE FLOW; RADIAL VELOCITY;

FLOW OF SOLIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GRINDING (MACHINING); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY;

EID: 33748807725     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060474s     Document Type: Article

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