Simultaneous CFD evaluation of wind flow and dust emission in open storage piles

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3197-3207

  Diego, I ^a   Pelegry, A ^a   Torno, S ^a   Torano J ^a   Menendez, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coal pile; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Emission factor; Wind blown particles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUST; FLUID DYNAMICS; PILES; SUBROUTINES;

COAL PILE; DUST EMISSIONS; EMISSION FACTOR; EMISSION RATES; FUGITIVE DUSTS; MULTI VARIABLES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATIONS; STANDARD SOFTWARES; STORAGE YARDS; WIND FLOWS; WIND PATTERNS;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

EID: 61449239052     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2008.10.037     Document Type: Article

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