Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) for the analysis of water motion in a domestic dishwasher

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 259, Issue , 2015, Pages 724-736

  Perez Mohedano R ^a,b   Letzelter, N ^b   Amador, C ^b   VanderRoest, C T ^c   Bakalis, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^c WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic dishwashing; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Fluid mechanics; Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT); Radioactive tracer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908680810     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.08.033     Document Type: Article

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