Biomass furnace study via 3D numerical modeling

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 515-533

  Cordiner, Stefano ^a   Manni, Alessandro ^a   Mulone, Vincenzo ^a   Rocco, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; CFD; Combustion; Eulerian Lagrangian approach; Grape marc; OpenFOAM

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FURNACES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; ACCURATE DESIGN; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; FIXED-BED COMBUSTION; FLUID-DYNAMICS APPROACH; GRAPE MARC; OPENFOAM; POLLUTANTS EMISSIONS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84959052806     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-03-2015-0089     Document Type: Article

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