Simulation of coalescence and breakage: An assessment of two stochastic methods suitable for simulating liquid-liquid extraction

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3865-3881

  Goodson, Mike ^a   Kraft, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modelling; Multiphase reactors; Population balance; Simulation; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACTION; SOLUTIONS;

MASS FLOW ALGORITHMS (MFA); STOCHASTIC SOLUTIONS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

COALESCENCE; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

EID: 4143110096     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.05.029     Document Type: Article

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