Evaluation of wall boundary condition parameters for gas-solids fluidized bed simulations

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3624-3632

  Li, Tingwen ^a,b   Benyahia, Sofiane ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluidized bed; Gas solids flow; Granular flow; Two fluid model

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED RISER; GAS-SOLIDS FLOW; GAS-SOLIDS FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRANULAR FLOWS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWO FLUID MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION; WALL BOUNDARY CONDITION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LITHIUM; NUMERICAL MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 84884411690     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14132     Document Type: Article

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