A new discretization of space for the solution of multi-dimensional population balance equations: Simultaneous breakup and aggregation of particles

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3988-3997

  Nandanwar, Mahendra N ^a   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Discretization methods; Modelling and simulation; Multi dimensional population balance equations; Population balance modelling

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DISCRETIZATION; EVOLUTION (CO); MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POPULATION BALANCE; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; PARTICLE BREAK-UP; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION (PBE); STEADY STATES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 46749126494     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.04.054     Document Type: Article

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