Pressure loss and wall shear stress in flow through confined sphere packings

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-137

  Riefler, Norbert ^a   Heiland, Michael ^a   Räbiger, Norbert ^a   Fritsching, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b STIFTUNG INSTITUT FÜR WERKSTOFFTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filtration; Hydrodynamics; Packed bed; Porous media; Simulation; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED FLOW; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FLOWTHROUGH; INTEGRAL APPROACH; INTEGRAL PARAMETERS; LOCAL VELOCITY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MEAN VALUES; POROUS STRUCTURES; PRESSURE DROP EQUATIONS; PRESSURE LOSS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH; SPHERE PACKINGS; TORTUOSITY; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS; FILTRATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PACKED BEDS; PACKING; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SPHERES; VOID FRACTION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 83955164178     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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