Modeling of water-spray application in the forced dispersion of LNG vapor cloud using a combined eulerian-lagrangian approach

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 13803-13814

  Kim, Byung Kyu ^a   Ng, Dedy ^a   Mentzer, Ray A ^a   Mannan, M Sam ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAYTON; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; DISCRETE PHASIS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; FIRE TRAINING; LNG INDUSTRY; MITIGATION SYSTEMS; MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROCESS SAFETY; VAPOR CLOUD; WATER DROPLETS; WATER SPRAYS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; WATER VAPOR;

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS;

EID: 84867832036     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie3003864     Document Type: Article

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