Experimental and computational study of the "end of the vortex" phenomenon in reverse-flow centrifugal separators

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1371-1380

  Pisarev, Gleb I ^a   Gjerde, Vidar ^a   Balakin, Boris V ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^b   Peng, Weiming ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Aker Offshore Partner AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Cyclone; End of the vortex; Large eddy simulation; Swirl tube; Turbulence; Vortex length

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CYCLONE DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW INSTABILITIES; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; LARGE EDDY; OPERATING CONDITION; STAR-CD; SWIRL TUBES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; VORTEX CORES;

STORMS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84859497344     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12695     Document Type: Article

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