CFD simulation of the flow field in a bubble column reactor: Importance of the drag force formulation to describe regime transitions

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1726-1737

  Simonnet, M ^a   Gentric, C ^a   Olmos, E ^a   Midoux, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bubble column; CFD; Drag force; Gas liquid flow; Hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

DRAG FORCE; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

EID: 44949164775     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2007.08.015     Document Type: Article

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