Solids motion and segregation of binary mixtures in a rotating drum mixer

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 85, Issue 7 A, 2007, Pages 963-973

  He, Y R ^a   Chen, H S ^a,b   Ding, Y L ^a   Lickiss, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary mixture; Euler Euler multi fluid model; Numerical simulation; Rolling mode; Rotating drum; Solids motion

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULER EQUATIONS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY);

CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE; EULER-EULER MULTI-FLUID MODEL; ROTATING DRUM MIXER; SOLIDS MOTION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULER EQUATIONS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 34547810018     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/cherd06216     Document Type: Article

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