Modeling the turbulent flow of pulp suspensions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 9735-9742

  Ventura, Carla A F ^a   Garcia, Fernando A P ^a   Ferreira, Paulo J ^a   Graca Rasteiro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD CODES; COMPLEX INTERACTION; FIBER SUSPENSION FLOW; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MULTIPHYSICS SOFTWARE; PULP FIBERS; PULP SUSPENSION; RHEOLOGICAL DATA; TURBULENCE PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBERS; PRESSURE DROP; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 80051724262     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie101500h     Document Type: Article

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