CFD analysis of flow field in square cyclones

Powder Technology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-357

  Raoufi, Arman ^a   Shams, Mehrzad ^a   Kanani, Homayoon ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Flow field; Square cyclone; Two phase

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD ANALYSIS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES; DISCRETE RANDOM WALKS; EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GRAVITY FORCES; INLET VELOCITIES; LAGRANGIAN; NEWTON'S SECOND LAWS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; REYNOLDS; REYNOLDS STRESS; SQUARE CYCLONE; STOKES EQUATIONS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; TURBULENCE INTENSITIES; TWO PHASE; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 61349130030     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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