Hybrid DEM-compartment modeling approach for granular mixing

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-128

  Portillo, Patricia M ^a   Muzzio, Fernando J ^a   Ierapetritou, Marianthi G ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

DEM; Hybrid approach; Mixing models

Indexed keywords

HYBRID APPROACHES; MIXING MODELS; POWDER MIXING; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 33846299617     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11054     Document Type: Article

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