Prediction of terminal velocity of solid spheres falling through Newtonian and non-Newtonian pseudoplastic power law fluid using artificial neural network

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 110-111, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-61

  Rooki, R ^a   Doulati Ardejani, F ^a   Moradzadeh, A ^a   Kelessidis, V C ^b   Nourozi, M ^a  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Drilling cuttings transport; Mineral processing; Newtonian and power law fluid; Terminal velocity

Indexed keywords

CUTTINGS TRANSPORT; EXTENDED RANGE; GEOTHERMAL DRILLING; MINERAL PROCESSING; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN SLURRIES; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER-LAW LIQUIDS; PSEUDOPLASTIC; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SOLID SPHERES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TERMINAL VELOCITY;

FLUIDS; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; OIL WELL DRILLING; RHEOLOGY; SPHERES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 84859924370     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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