Evaluation of experimental techniques to validate numerical computations of the hydraulics inside a UV bench-scale reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4491-4502

  Wols, B A ^a,b   Shao, L ^b   Uijttewaal, W S J ^b   Hofman, J A M H ^a,b   Rietveld, L C ^b   van Dijk, J C ^b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimental validation; Hydrodynamics; Numerical analysis; Transport processes; Turbulence; UV disinfection

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TRANSPORT PROCESSES; UV DISINFECTION;

DISINFECTION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77953127879     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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