Fundamental understanding of swirling flow pattern in hydrocyclones

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 92, Issue , 2012, Pages 152-160

  Davailles, Aurélien ^a,b   Climent, Eric ^a,b   Bourgeois, Florent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Allée du Professeur Camille Soula   (France)

Author keywords

Air core; Hydrocyclone; Swirling flow; Turbulence model

Indexed keywords

AIR CORE; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLOW CONDITION; HYDRO-CYCLONE; HYDROCYCLONES; KEY FEATURE; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MULTI-FLUIDS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84860654758     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2011.12.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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