XDEM employed to predict reduction of tungsten oxide in a dry hydrogen atmosphere

International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-94

  Donoso, Alvaro Antonio Estupinan ^a   Peters, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

CFD; Computational fluid dynamics; Discrete element method; Discrete particle method; DPM; Extended discrete element method; Tungsten oxide reduction; XDEM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

DISCRETE PARTICLE METHODS; DPM; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; MASS AND MOMENTUM TRANSFERS; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; TUNGSTEN OXIDE; XDEM;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84933053749     PISSN: 02634368     EISSN: 22133917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmhm.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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