Experimental Investigation of Single-phase Flow in Structured Packing by LDV* * Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.20476072).

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 821-827

  CHEN, Jiangbo ^a   LIU, Chunjiang ^a   LI, Yingke ^a   HUANG, Ying ^a   YUAN, Xigang ^a   YU, Guocong ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; laser Doppler velocimeiry; structured packing; velocity profile

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

STRUCTURED PACKING; VELOCITY PROFILE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 38049047930     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1004-9541(08)60009-9     Document Type: Article

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