Numerical simulation of a fully baffled biological reactor: The differential circumferential averaging mixing plane approach

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 754-766

  Dubey, Hitesh ^a   Das, Sarit Kumar ^a   Panda, Tapobrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Biochemical reactor; CFD; Impeller modeling; k turbulence model; Mixing plane approach; Rushton turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; STEADY FLOW;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTORS; IMPELLER MODELING; MIXING PLANE APPROACH; RUSHTON TURBINES;

BIOREACTORS;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; BIOREACTOR EQUIPMENT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REACTOR MONITORING; REACTOR OPERATION;

BIOREACTORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33750546024     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.21030     Document Type: Article

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