Lattice approaches to packed column simulations

Particuology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 404-411

  Caulkin, Richard ^a   Jia, Xiaodong ^a   Fairweather, Mike ^a   Williams, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed structure; Lattice Boltzmann simulations; Macroscopic properties; Packed columns; Packing algorithm

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; PELLETIZING;

BED STRUCTURE; LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATIONS; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; PACKED COLUMNS; PACKING ALGORITHM;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 57049136539     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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