CFD simulations of expanding/contracting homogeneous fluidized beds and their transition to bubbling

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5831-5847

  Mazzei, Luca ^a   Lettieri, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed expansion; Bed stability; Drag force; Elastic force; Eulerian Eulerian mathematical modeling; Fluidization; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; FLUIDS; FORECASTING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NANOFLUIDICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BED EXPANSION; BED STABILITY; DRAG FORCE; ELASTIC FORCE; EULERIAN-EULERIAN MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

FLUIDIZATION;

EID: 55049125734     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.08.029     Document Type: Article

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