Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Motivation
1.2 Objectives
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hydrodynamic Characterizations
2.3 CFD Modeling Approaches
2.4 Closure Model
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Numerical Study of Special Ball Packed Bed Reactor
3.1 Experiments Data Collection
3.2 Development of the Numerical Model
3.3 Results and Discussion
3.4 Conclusions
Chapter 4 Numerical Simulations of a Structured Packed Bed
4.1 CFD Model Development
4.2 Results and Discussion
4.3 Conclusions
Chapter 5 Development of Macro-scale Model
5.1 Macro-scale Model Description
5.2 Modified Closure Model
5.3 Results of a New Closure Model
5.4 Conclusions
Chapter 6 Conclusions
Nomenclature
References