CFD as a Tool to Characterize Single-Use Bioreactors

Single-Use Technology in Biopharmaceutical Manufacture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 263-279

  Löffelholz, Christian ^a   Kaiser, Stephan C ^a   Werner, Sören ^a   Eibl, Dieter ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Flow pattern; Single use bioreactors; Standard stirred bioreactors; Vibromix system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885513025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470909997.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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