Validated simulation of droplet sedimentation with finite-element and level-set methods

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2037-2051

  Bertakis, Evangelos ^a   Groß, Sven ^a   Grande, Jörg ^a   Fortmeier, Oliver ^a   Reusken, Arnold ^a   Pfennig, Andreas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drop; Dynamic simulation; Extraction; Hydrodynamics; Interface; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DROP DYNAMICS; DROPLET DIAMETERS; DROPLET SHAPE; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FINITE-ELEMENT; GRID RESOLUTION; INITIAL VELOCITIES; INTERFACE MOVEMENT; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; N-BUTANOL; NONSTATIONARY; OSCILLATION BEHAVIOR; SEDIMENTING; SIMULATION RESULT; TERMINAL VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DOMAIN WALLS; DROP FORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SET THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 76549127598     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.11.043     Document Type: Article

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