Nucleation simulations using the fluid dynamics software FLUENT with the fine particle model FPM

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 110, Issue 45, 2006, Pages 12448-12455

  Herrmann, Erik ^a   Lihavainen, Heikki ^b   Hyvärinen, Antti Pekka ^b   Riipinen, Ilona ^a   Wilck, Martin ^c   Stratmann, Frank ^d   Kulmala, Markku ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Particle Dynamics GmbH   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; FPM SIMULATIONS; LAMINAR FLOW DIFFUSION CHAMBER (LFDC); SATURATION RATIO VALUES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 33751245104     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp064604m     Document Type: Article

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