Computational flow modeling and visualization in the annular region of annular centrifugal extractor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 8343-8354

  Deshmukh, Sandesh S ^a   Vedantam, Sreepriya ^a   Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B ^a   Koganti, Sudhir B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CELL PATTERNS; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

SEPARATORS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEPARATORS;

EID: 37249031463     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie061587e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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