Prediction of strongly swirling flow within an axial hydrocyclone using two commercial CFD codes

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1619-1635

  Murphy, S ^a   Delfos, R ^a   Pourquie M J B M ^a   Olujić, Ž ^a   Jansens, P J ^a   Nieuwstadt, F T M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CFD; Design; Fluid mechanics; Modelling; Simulation; Swirling flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENCE MODELING; TURBULENT DIFFUSION;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33846846212     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.10.031     Document Type: Article

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