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Modeling the evaporation of a hydrocarbon feedstock in the convection section of a steam cracker

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The developed model is used to simulate the flow boiling process of a hydrocarbon feedstock in the tubes of a convection section heat exchanger of a steam cracker and results show a succession of horizontal two-phase flow regimes in agreement with the literature.
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This article is published in Computers & Chemical Engineering.The article was published on 2009-01-13. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Two-phase flow & Heat exchanger.

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Heat pipe based systems - Advances and applications

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art applications, materials and performance of current heat pipe devices can be found in this paper, where heat pipe technologies offer many key advantages over conventional practices.
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Review of computational studies on boiling and condensation

TL;DR: In this article, a large pool of published papers on computational simulation of boiling and condensation is reviewed and compared, as well as identification of future research needs to improve predictive computational capabilities.
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CFD modeling of flow and heat transfer in a thermosyphon

TL;DR: In this article, a gas/liquid two-phase flow and the simultaneous evaporation and condensation phenomena in a thermosyphon was modeled using the volume of fluid (VOF) technique.
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Thermal/catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons for the production of olefins: A state-of-the-art review I: Thermal cracking review

TL;DR: In this paper, the main research works done on the steam cracking of hydrocarbons from ethane to gasoil have been reviewed in the literature in the last five decades and a mathematical model is presented for the simulation of the firebox and the reactor.
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Numerical modelling of the temperature distribution in a two-phase closed thermosyphon

TL;DR: The Saudi Cultural Bureau in London, the Ministry of Higher Education and the Mechanical Engineering Department, Umm Al-Qura University as discussed by the authors have published a survey on the Saudi cultural heritage.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

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An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method

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Turbulence modeling for CFD

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a compressible ecoulement for compressible ECCs, based on the disquette reference record created on 2005-11-18, modified on 2016-08-08.
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Solution of the implicitly discretised reacting flow equations by operator-splitting

TL;DR: In this article, a non-iterative method for handling the coupling of the implicitly discretised time-dependent fluid flow equations is described, based on the use of pressure and velocity as dependent variables and is hence applicable to both the compressible and incompressible versions of the transport equations.
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Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles

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