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A numerical investigation of simulating moisture in motive steam in a thermal-vapor compressor with DPM method
One of the prevalent phenomena that significantly affects thermal-vapor compressors is the moisture in the motive steam. It has a dominant effect on the thermodynamic and design parameters of a thermal-vapor c...
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Design aspects of forced circulation evaporators of high salty water from the view point of scale formation
In this paper, dryout phenomenon was studied for vertical tubes working at the operating condition of forced circulation evaporator in zero liquid discharge systems to find the maximum allowable value of tempe...
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Effects of film flow rate on falling film flow with dominant evaporation and simultaneous evaporation and boiling
Numerous industrial applications of falling film flows alongside its heat and mass transfer complexities appreciate some deep and detailed studies. In order to recognize the influences of film flow rate on the...
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Numerical investigation of saturated upward flow boiling of water in a vertical tube using VOF model: effect of different boundary conditions
In this paper a numerical simulation of upward two-phase flow evaporation in a vertical tube has been studied by considering water as working fluid. To this end, the computational fluid dynamic simulations of ...
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Numerical investigation of the minimum fluidization velocity in a gas–solid fluidized bed using discrete phase model
The main purpose of this work is to find a new numerical model that is capable of investigating the minimum fluidization velocity in a gas–solid bed over a broad range of particle diameters and particle densit...
