Modeling aspects of flow and solute transport simulations in water disinfection tanks

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 16-17, 2013, Pages 8039-8050

  Kim, Dongjin ^a   Stoesser, Thorsten ^b   Kim, Jae Hong ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baffled disinfection tank; RANS; RTD; Turbulent Schmidt number

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DISINFECTION TANKS; RANS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES; RTD; SERPENTINE FLOW PATTERN; TURBULENT SCHMIDT NUMBER;

DISINFECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SERPENTINE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84881545976     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.03.031     Document Type: Article

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