Study of wall boundary condition in numerical simulations of bubbling fluidized beds

Powder Technology

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-457

  Li, Tingwen ^a   Grace, John ^a   Bi, Xiaotao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Bubbles; CFD; Fluidization; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING METHOD; BED EXPANSION; BUBBLE DIAMETER; BUBBLE PROPERTIES; BUBBLE SIZE; BUBBLES; BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED; CFD; CFD MODELS; EULERIAN-EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW HYDRODYNAMICS; LOCAL VOIDAGE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RESTITUTION COEFFICIENT; SOLID-PHASE; SPECULARITIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; VOIDAGE; WALL BOUNDARY CONDITION; WALL EFFECTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW RATE; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77955846981     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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