Modeling of flow field and separation efficiency of a deoiling hydrocyclone using large eddy simulation

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 112-113, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-93

  Saidi, Maysam ^a   Maddahian, Reza ^a   Farhanieh, Bijan ^a   Afshin, Hossein ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Deoiling hydrocyclone; Eulerian Lagrangian approach; Large eddy simulation; Separation efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC BEHAVIORS; DE-OILING; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; HYDRO-CYCLONE; HYDROCYCLONES; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE TRACKING; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SMALL SCALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; VELOCITY FIELD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EFFICIENCY; FLOW FIELDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

EID: 84865090387     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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