Least squares higher order method for the solution of a combined multifluid-Population balance model: Modeling and implementation issues

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 1121-1132

  Borka, Z ^a   Jakobsen, H A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breakage rate; Coalescence rate; Density function; Growth velocity; Multifluid model; Population balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881514525     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.07.504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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