Evaluation of numerical schemes for dispersed phase modeling of cyclone separators

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-246

  Shukla, Sujeet Kumar ^a,b   Shukla, Prashant ^b   Ghosh, Pradyumna ^b  

^a ICAR CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COTTON TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cyclone separator; Dispersed phase; Numerical schemes; Runge Kutta; Trapezoidal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955862728     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2011.11015367     Document Type: Article

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