Analysis of mixing processes using CFD

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 555-588

  Connelly, Robin K ^a   Kokini, Jozef L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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