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The separation efficiency and pressure drop of the dynamic separator of cement particles can be affected by many factors, like structural type, geometric parameters, and operating characteristics. In this paper, CFD modeling is applied to…
Current design constraints have encouraged the studies of aeroacoustic fields around compressible jet flows. The present work addresses the numerical study of unsteady turbulent jet flows as a preparation for future aeroacoustic analyses of…
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