Hydraulic efficiency in RANS of the flow in multichambered contactors

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1150-1157

  Zhang, J ^a   Tejada Martinez A E ^a   Zhang, Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Hydraulic efficiency; Multichambered contactor; Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes simulation (RANS)

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; HYDRAULIC EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTICHAMBERED CONTACTOR; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES SIMULATIONS; TRACER CONCENTRATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OZONE; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDRAULICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESIDENCE TIME; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 84886913049     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000777     Document Type: Article

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