Modelling of particulate processes

KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Volumn 23, Issue March, 2005, Pages 18-35

  Kraft, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modelling; Nanoparticles; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION REACTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLAME SYNTHESIS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SINTERING; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE; INTERNAL COORDINATES; LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARTICULATE PROCESS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; POPULATION BALANCES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 47549085019     PISSN: 02884534     EISSN: 21875537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14356/kona.2005007     Document Type: Article

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