Optimization and evaluation of radially interconnected versus bifurcating flow distributors using computational fluid dynamics modelling Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Two main groups of flow distributors, viz. "bifurcating distributors" (BF) and "radially interconnected distributors" (RI), as well as some hybrid distributors were investigated. Computational fluid dynamics was used to evaluate the performance of the distributors and to establish the design yielding the most uniform velocity field and the smallest variance for the bands emerging from the distributor. A minimum channel width of 100 μm was ...