Fly ash deposition modelling: Requirements for accurate predictions of particle impaction on tubes using RANS-based computational fluid dynamics

Fuel

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 586-596

  Weber, Roman ^a   Schaffel Mancini, Natalia ^a   Mancini, Marco ^a   Kupka, Tomasz ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ash deposition; CFD boiler predictions; Critical Stokes number; Particle impaction efficiency

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; FLY ASH; FORECASTING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ARRIVAL RATES; ASH DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION SURFACE; INERTIAL IMPACTION; REYNOLDS - AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; STOKES NUMBER; TIME DEPENDENT SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84883600082     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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