Lattice Boltzmann method for population balance equations with simultaneous growth, nucleation, aggregation and breakage

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 316-328

  Majumder, Aniruddha ^a   Kariwala, Vinay ^a   Ansumali, Santosh ^b   Rajendran, Arvind ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Breakage; Dynamic simulation; Lattice Boltzmann method; Particulate process; Population balance

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; FINITE VOLUME; FIXED PIVOT; KINETIC EQUATIONS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; NON-UNIFORM GRIDS; NUMBER OF GRIDS; PARTICULATE PROCESS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCES; SIMULTANEOUS GROWTH; SOURCE TERMS;

COAL BREAKAGE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUCLEATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 83955162359     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.051     Document Type: Article

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