Simulation of mixing dynamics in agitated pulp stock chests using CFD

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3562-3569

  Ford, C ^a   Ein Mozaffari, F ^a   Bennington, C P J ^a   Taghipour, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Mixing; Pulp suspensions; Suspensions

Indexed keywords

PULP SUSPENSIONS; TIME CONSTANT; VELOCITY TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

PULP;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PULP;

FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PULPS;

EID: 33749481222     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10958     Document Type: Article

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