Large eddy simulation of flow and tracer transport in multichamber ozone contactors

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-31

  Kim, Dongjin ^a   Kim, Doo Il ^b   Kim, Jae Hong ^a   Stoesser, Thorsten ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b POSCO   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Hydrodynamics; Large eddy simulation (LES); Ozone contractor; Residence time distribution (RTD); Short circuiting recirculation

Indexed keywords

FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLOW DIAGNOSIS; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; INTERNAL RECIRCULATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTI-CHAMBER; OZONE CONTRACTORS; REACTOR DESIGNS; RECIRCULATION ZONES; RECIRCULATIONS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SECONDARY VORTEX; SHORT-CIRCUITING RECIRCULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME-AVERAGED; TRACER TESTS; TRACER TRANSPORT; TURBULENT STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTRACTORS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OZONE; PUMPS; RESONANT TUNNELING; RETROFITTING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BIOREACTOR; FLOW PATTERN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER;

EID: 73349087162     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000118     Document Type: Article

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