Numerical simulation of flow field in three types of standard cyclone separators

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 435-442

  Safikhani, H ^a,c   Akhavan Behabadi, M A ^a   Shams, M ^b   Rahimyan, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c KIASA Co   (Iran)

Author keywords

1D2D cyclone; 1D3D cyclone; 2D2D cyclone; CFD; Gas solid

Indexed keywords

CFD TECHNIQUE; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; CUT-POINT; DISCRETE RANDOM WALK; EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID FLOW; GAS-SOLID; LAGRANGIAN; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE DYNAMICS; PRESSURE CORRECTION; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS STRESS TURBULENCE MODEL; THEORETICAL MODELS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORMS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

EID: 77955528983     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: 15685527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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