Large Eddy Simulation of the gas-particle flow in cyclone separators

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 94, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-70

  De Souza, Francisco José ^a   De Vasconcelos Salvo, Ricardo ^a   De Moro Martins, Diego Alves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CFD; Cyclone; Eulerian Lagrangian; Grade efficiency; LES

Indexed keywords

AD HOC PARAMETERS; DISPERSION MODELS; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; GAS-PARTICLE FLOWS; GEOMETRY VARIATIONS; GRADE EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATION SCHEME; LES; OPERATING CONDITION; PARAMETER-TUNING; PARTICLE MOTIONS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED TURBULENCE MODEL; SMALL SAMPLING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORMS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 84860876355     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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