Radial variation in porosity in annular packed beds

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3073-3079

  du Toit, C G ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; POROSITY;

EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; POROSITY CHARACTERISTICS; RADIAL DIRECTIONS; RADIAL VARIATIONS;

PACKED BEDS;

EID: 53949091456     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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