Flow visualization and three-dimensional CFD simulation of the annular region of an annular centrifugal extractor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3677-3686

  Deshmukh, Sandesh S ^a   Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B ^a   Koganti, Sudhir B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BOTTOM PLATES; CELL PATTERNING; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; END EFFECTS; LASER-DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; NET FLOWS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SINGLE-PHASE FLOWS; START UP PROCEDURES; TAYLOR NUMBERS; VELOCITY PROFILING;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 49049084055     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070959w     Document Type: Article

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