Analysis of wall shear stress on the outside-in type hollow fiber membrane modules by CFD simulation

Desalination

Volumn 351, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-119

  Kaya, Recep ^a   Deveci, Gokhan ^a   Turken, Turker ^a   Sengur, Reyhan ^a   Guclu, Serkan ^a   Koseoglu Imer, Derya Y ^a   Koyuncu, Ismail ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CFD; Crossflow filtration; Hollow fiber membrane module; Shear stress; Simulation

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MEMBRANES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

CROSS FLOW FILTRATION; DISTRIBUTION OF VELOCITY; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE MODULES; HOLLOW FIBER MODULE; MODULE CONFIGURATIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY; MEMBRANE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 84905712307     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.07.033     Document Type: Article

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