Effects of the turbulent-to-laminar transition in monolithic reactors for automotive pollution control

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3194-3205

  Ström, Henrik ^a   Sasic, Srdjan ^a   Andersson, Bengt ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE CATALYSTS; AUTOMOTIVE POLLUTION; DEPOSITION PROFILES; GASEOUS SPECIES; INERTIAL PARTICLES; MAIN EFFECT; MONOLITH CHANNELS; MONOLITHIC REACTOR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBULENT EDDY;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 79952590282     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie102291t     Document Type: Article

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