Large Eddy Simulation of the vortex end in reverse-flow centrifugal separators

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5016-5022

  Pisarev, Gleb I ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^a   Peng, Weiming ^a,b   Dijkstra, Henk A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Aker Offshore Partner AS   (Norway)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Cyclones; End of the vortex; LES; Swirl tubes; Turbulence; Vortex length

Indexed keywords

CYCLONES; END OF THE VORTEX; LES; SWIRL TUBES; VORTEX LENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; STORMS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENCE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79551494249     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.07.050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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