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Dr Pablo Brito-Parada

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Reader in Sustainable Minerals Processing
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9980p.brito-parada Website

 
 
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2.55Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Bhutani:2016:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.11.005,
author = {Bhutani, G and Brito, Parada P},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.11.005},
journal = {International Journal of Multiphase Flow},
pages = {413--416},
title = {Analytical solution for a three-dimensional non-homogeneous bivariate population balance equation---a special case},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.11.005},
volume = {89},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - There has been a dramatic increase in the number of research publications using the population balance equation (PBE). The PBE allows the prediction of the spatial distribution of the dispersed phase size for an accurate estimation of the flow fields in multiphase flows. A few recent studies have proposed new efficient numerical methods to solve non-homogeneous multivariate PBE and implemented the same in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. However, these codes are generally benchmarked against other numerical methods and applied without verification. To address this gap, an analytical solution for a three-dimensional non-homogeneous bivariate PBE is presented here for the first time. The method of manufactured solutions (MMS) has been used to construct a solution of the non-homogeneous PBE containing breakage and coalescence terms, and an additional source term appearing as a result of this method. The analytical solution presented in this work can be used for the rigorous verification of computer codes written to solve the non-homogeneous bivariate PBE. Quantification of the errors due to different numerical schemes will also become possible with the availability of this analytical solution for the PBE.
AU  - Bhutani,G
AU  - Brito,Parada P
DO  - 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.11.005
EP  - 416
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1879-3533
SP  - 413
TI  - Analytical solution for a three-dimensional non-homogeneous bivariate population balance equation---a special case
T2  - International Journal of Multiphase Flow
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.11.005
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/42684
VL  - 89
ER  -
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