On the coupled solution of a combined population balance model using the least-squares spectral element method

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7994-8006

  Zhu, Zhengjie ^a   Dorao, Carlos A ^a   Lucas, D ^b   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKAGE KERNEL; BUBBLE BREAKAGE; BUBBLE COALESCENCE; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; COALESCENCE KERNEL; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; COUPLED SOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOW QUANTITIES; HIGHER ORDER; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; PHASE BUBBLES; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; TWO FLUID MODEL;

BLEACHING; BUBBLE COLUMNS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 69949172464     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900088q     Document Type: Article

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