Scale-up study of spouted beds using computational fluid dynamics

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-203

  Béttega, Rodrigo ^a   Corrêa, Ronaldo Guimarães ^a   Freire, José Teixeira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CFD; Scale up; Similitude method; Simulation; Spouted bed

Indexed keywords

CFD; SCALE-UP; SIMILITUDE METHOD; SIMULATION; SPOUTED BED;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HELIUM; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 65349157765     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20154     Document Type: Article

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