Slurry flow in a tower mill

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 152-159

  Sinnott, Matt ^a   Cleary, Paul W ^a   Morrison, Rob D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comminution; Computational fluid dynamics; Discrete element modelling; Grinding

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELLING; FINE GRINDING; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; FLUID FLOW; FLUID MODELS; FREE SURFACES; GRINDING; GRINDING MEDIA; IMPELLER DESIGN; MINERAL PROCESSING INDUSTRY; MODELLING PROCESS; OPERATING CONDITION; POROUS MEDIA; SLURRY FLOW; SLURRY VISCOSITY; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS METHODS; STEADY VELOCITY FIELD; TWO STAGE; VOIDAGE; WET GRINDING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; GRINDING (MACHINING); GRINDING MILLS; IMPELLERS; MINERAL INDUSTRY; PIPE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TOWERS;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION);

EID: 78650896192     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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