Characterization of interfacial hydrodynamics in a single cell of shaken microtiter plate bioreactors applying computational fluid dynamics technique

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 924-930

  Pouran, B ^a   Amoabediny, G ^a   Sadegh Saghafinia, M ^b   Haji Abbas, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Gas liquid interface; Microtiter clate; Orbital shaking bioreactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883177817     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.07.485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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