CFD in Drying Technology-Spray-Dryer Simulation

Modern Drying Technology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 155-208

  Blei, Stefan ^a   Sommerfeld, Martin ^b  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD; Collisions of particles; Droplet drying models; Drying technology; Euler Lagrange approach; Spray dryer calculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865219213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527631629.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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