Pressure drop predictions in microfibrous materials using computational fluid dynamics

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 0713021-07130213

  Duggirala, Ravi K ^a   Roy, Christopher J ^a   Saeidi, S M ^a   Khodadadi, Jay M ^a   Cahela, Don R ^a   Tatarchuk, Bruce J ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON POWDER; BIAS ERROR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; CYLINDRICAL FIBERS; DISCRETIZATION PROCESS; ERGUN'S EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FACE VELOCITY; FIBER DIAMETERS; FLOW OF AIR; GEOMETRIC APPROXIMATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; MATRIX; MEAN FREE PATH; MICROFIBROUS MATERIALS; MOLECULAR COLLISIONS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PER UNIT LENGTH; POROUS MEDIA PERMEABILITIES; SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERRORS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SINTERING; VELOCITY;

VOID FRACTION;

EID: 77952670974     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2948363     Document Type: Article

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