Prediction of slurry transport in SAG mills using SPH fluid flow in a dynamic DEM based porous media

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1517-1527

  Cleary, Paul W ^a   Sinnott, Matt ^a   Morrison, Rob ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comminution; Computational fluid dynamics; Discrete element modelling; SAG milling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; SLURRIES; VISCOSITY;

SAG MILLS; SLURRY VOLUME; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH);

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 33750605239     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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