Computational modelling of packed bed systems

3rd World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 601-606

  Gopinathan, N ^a   Fairweather, M ^a   Jia, X ^a   Williams, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lattice Boltzmann method; Particle packing; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORECASTING; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIAS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHODS (LBM); MODELLING CAPABILITIES; PARTICLE PACKINGS; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

PACKED BEDS;

EID: 77949490293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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