Effect of surfactant on the dynamics of a crude oil droplet in water column: Experimental and numerical investigation

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2098-2114

  Rao, Abhijit ^a   Reddy, Rupesh K ^a   Ehrenhauser, Franz ^c   Nandakumar, Krishnaswamy ^a   Thibodeaux, Louis J ^a   Rao, Dandina ^b   Valsaraj, Kalliat T ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Audubon Sugar Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Crude oil droplet; Interfacial tension; Internal circulations; Surfactant; VOF

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRUDE OIL; DROPS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; WAKES;

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; CONTINUUM SURFACE FORCES; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNAL CIRCULATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OIL DROPLETS; PIECEWISE LINEAR REPRESENTATION; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

SPRAY NOZZLES;

EID: 84910671500     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22074     Document Type: Article

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