Study of transition velocities from bubbling to turbulent fluidization by statistic and wavelet multi-resolution analysis on absolute pressure fluctuations

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1950-1970

  Yang, Tung Yu ^a   Leu, Lii ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multi resolution analysis; Pressure fluctuations; Regime transition; Transition velocity; Turbulent fluidization; Wavelet transformation

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MULTI-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS; REGIME TRANSITION; TRANSITION VELOCITY; TURBULENT FLUIDIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMATION;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 40849130773     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.12.024     Document Type: Article

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