Compartmental models for continuous flow reactors derived from CFD simulations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2381-2387

  Gresch, Markus ^a,b   Brügger, Raphael ^a,b   Meyer, Alain ^a,b   Gujer, Willi ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); CFD-SIMULATIONS; COMPARTMENTAL MODELS; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTORS; DISCRETISATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES; FLOW FEATURES; FLOW MODELS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; NEW CONTAMINANTS; OZONATION PROCESS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS; PROCESS MODELING; REACTING SPECIES; REACTOR MODELING; STEADY STATE; TRACER EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENT FLUXES;

FLUID DYNAMICS; OZONE; OZONIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLUORESCEIN SODIUM;

COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEGRADATION; FLOW MODELING; TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OZONATION; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 64349090469     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801651j     Document Type: Article

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