Using electrical resistance tomography and computational fluid dynamics modeling to study the formation of cavern in the mixing of pseudoplastic fluids possessing yield stress

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2508-2522

  Pakzad, Leila ^a   Ein Mozaffari, Farhad ^a   Chan, Philip ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavern formation; Computational fluid dynamics; Mixing; Non Newtonian fluids; Simulation; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAVERN FORMATION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS;

MIXING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41749089112     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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