Comparison of experimental and numerical studies of the performance characteristics of a pumped counterflow virtual impactor

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 382-392

  Kulkarni, Gourihar ^a   Pekour, Mikhail ^a   Afchine, Armin ^b   Murphy, Daniel M ^c   Cziczo, Daniel J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; COUNTERFLOW; CUT SIZE; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; FLOW RECIRCULATION; NOZZLE GEOMETRIES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; VIRTUAL IMPACTORS;

EXPERIMENTS; MICROMETERS; NOZZLES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMPED COUNTERFLOW VIRTUAL IMPACTOR; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

EID: 79953679307     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2010.539291     Document Type: Article

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