A new event-driven constant-volume method for solution of the time evolution of particle size distribution

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1412-1428

  Zhao, Haibo ^a   Zheng, Chuguang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Breakage; Coagulation; Differentially weighting; Particulate processes; Population balance modeling

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BREAKAGE; CONSTANT-VOLUME METHODS; DIFFERENTIALLY WEIGHTING; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; DISPERSED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC EVOLUTION; EVENT-DRIVEN; PARTICLES-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICULATE PROCESS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELLING;

COAGULATION;

EID: 58249141763     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.10.033     Document Type: Article

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