Euler-Lagrange modeling of a gas-liquid stirred reactor with consideration of bubble breakage and coalescence

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1356-1370

  Sungkorn, R ^a   Derksen, J J ^b   Khinast, J G ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH CENTER PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bubble breakup and coalescence; Computational fluid dynamics; Gas liquid stirred reactor; Immersed boundary condition; Lagrangian particle tracking; Lattice Botlzmann method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); GAS LIQUIDS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE TRACKING; LATTICE-BOTLZMANN METHOD;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84859510375     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12690     Document Type: Article

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