Analysis of air velocity distribution in a laboratory batch-type tray air dryer by computational fluid dynamics

International Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 413-421

  Tzempelikos, D A ^a   Vouros, A P ^b   Bardakas, A V ^b   Filios, A E ^b   Margaris, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airflow; Batch dryer; CFD; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875744120     PISSN: 19980159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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