Thermal response of close-coupled catalysts during light-off

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Koltsakis, Grigorios C ^a   Tsinoglou, Dimitrios N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CATALYST TEMPERATURE; CLOSE-COUPLED CATALYSTS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EFFECT OF CATALYST; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; FLOW MALDISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; TIME DEPENDENT VELOCITY;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 85072436191     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-1876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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