Computational Fluid Mixing

Food Mixing: Principles and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 125-174

  Rielly, Chris D ^a   Gimbun, Jolius ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD application to stirred tank modelling; CFD simulation of mixing processes; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and solving flow associated problems; Computational fluid mixing; Conservation equations and continuity equation; Direct numerical simulation (DNS); Fluid mechanics and transport process understanding; Laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) and particle image velocimetry (PIV); Quadrature method of moments (QMOM); Reynolds stress model (RSM) and individual transport equation solving

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID MIXING; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; QUADRATURE METHOD OF MOMENTS; STIRRED TANK; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84877346841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312928.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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