Model simulation and experiments of flow and mass transport through a nano-material gas filter

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 20-21, 2013, Pages 9052-9062

  Yang, Xiaofan ^a   Zheng, Zhongquan Charlie ^b   Winecki, Slawomir ^c   Eckels, Steve ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c NanoScale Corporation   (United States)

^d Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Nano material; Numerical models of porous materials; Packed bed

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION MODEL; ADSORPTION PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; MODEL SIMULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NANOMATERIAL; PACKED BED FILTERS; POROUS SUBSTRATES;

ADSORPTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84884125220     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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