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Mixing Due to Natural Convection in a Hydrothermal Reactor: A CFD Study
The successful design of biomass hydrothermal reactors could be substantially enhanced by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. However, their performance is still limited by the complexity of the involved physicochemical phenomena and the scarcity of experimental data. This study employs...
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