A fundamental model of particle deposition incorporated in CFD simulations of an industrial milk spray dryer

Drying Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 960-971

  Jin, Yan ^a   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Fluent; Industrial scale spray dryer; Multiphase flow; Ohnesorge number; Particle deposition; Reentrainment; Weber number

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL SCALE; INDUSTRIAL SCALE SPRAY DRYER; PARTICLE DEPOSITIONS; RE-ENTRAINMENT; SPRAY DRYERS; WEBER NUMBERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955320073     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2010.497082     Document Type: Article

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