Numerical investigation of the hydrocyclone vortex finder depth on separation efficiency

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Issue		MATEC Web Conf. Volume 347, 2021 12^th South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM2020)


Article Number		00039
Number of page(s)		12
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202134700039
Published online		23 November 2021

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