CFD models of jet mixing and their validation by tracer experiments

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-304

  Furman, Leszek ^a   Stegowski, Zdzislaw ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Jet mixers; Residence time distribution; Tracers

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELS; CLASSICAL THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; JET MIXERS; JET MIXING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TRACER EXPERIMENT; TRACERS; VALIDATION PROBLEM;

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79953028086     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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