Modelling of Flow, Transport and Disinfection Kinetics in Contact Tanks

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management

Volumn 167, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 532-546

  Angeloudis, Athanasios ^a   Stoesser, Thorsten ^a   Kim, Dongjin ^b   Falconer, Roger Alexander ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulics hydrodynamics; Mathematical modeling; Water supply

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTAKE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER SUPPLY;

CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; DISINFECTION KINETICS; INLET CONFIGURATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODELLING OF FLOWS; PATHOGEN INACTIVATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISINFECTION; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGEN; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84913585495     PISSN: 17417589     EISSN: 17517729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/wama.13.00045     Document Type: Article

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