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Cfd Simulations Of Bubble Column Equipped With Bundles Of Concentric Tubes, Glen C. Dsouza
Cfd Simulations Of Bubble Column Equipped With Bundles Of Concentric Tubes, Glen C. Dsouza
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Bubble column reactors are multiphase contactors that have found several industrial applications owing to various attractive features including excellent thermal management, low maintenance cost due to simple construction and absence of moving parts. In order to attain desired performance for a given application, these reactors are usually equipped with internals such as vertical tube bundles to facilitate heat transfer. The column hydrodynamics and turbulence parameters are altered when the column is occluded with internals which adds to the complexity of the problem. The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for the study of multiphase flows has gained a lot …
Yield-Stress Fluids In Confined Geometries, Thalia Magyar
Yield-Stress Fluids In Confined Geometries, Thalia Magyar
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A yield-stress fluid is a material that has properties of both solids and conventional liquids that only begins to flow when subject to a finite stress. The behaviour of yield-stress fluids is interesting and important in many applications. It is expected that the rheological properties of a yield-stress fluid will change when confined to a region with a length scale comparable to the characteristic scale of its microstructure. The particle size and polydispersity of two yield-stress fluids, Carbopol and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), were determined using dynamic light scattering. A rheological characterization was performed on these two yield-stress fluids. Flow of …