A two-class population balance equation yielding bimodal flocculation of marine or estuarine sediments

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2131-2145

  Lee, Byung Joon ^a   Toorman, Erik ^a   Molz, Fred J ^b   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodal; Flocculation; Macrofloc; Microfloc; Population balance equation; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; FLOCCULATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

BIMODAL; COHESIVE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS; FLOC SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MACROFLOC; MICROFLOC; PHYSICOCHEMICAL ASPECTS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

OSTWALD RIPENING;

ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOCCULATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION MODELING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SPECIES; FLOCCULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARINE SPECIES; MASS ACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; MULTICLASS POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SINGLE CLASS POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; TWO CLASS POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

EID: 79951579809     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.12.028     Document Type: Article

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