Unsteady flows with mass transfer in narrow zigzag spacer-filled channels: A numerical study

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6594-6603

  Fimbres Weihs, G A ^a   Wiley, D E ^a   Fletcher, D F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING;

FLOW REGIMES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE FILTRATION; SCHMIDT NUMBER;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 33749162675     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie060243l     Document Type: Article

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