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Anthony G. Dixon is affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with specific contributions to computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, catalysis, and ocean engineering.

The scientist has a notable record of publications exploring various aspects of heat and mass transfer, granular flow, and fluid dynamics in porous media and packed beds. Their main research topics include:

  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming

Recent papers authored by Anthony G. Dixon cover computational fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in fixed bed reactors and related systems. These papers include:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics for Fixed Bed Reactor Design, 2020, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Local transport and reaction rates in a fixed bed reactor tube: Exothermic partial oxidation of ethylene, 2020, Chemical Engineering Science
  • Particle-resolved CFD simulation of fixed bed pressure drop at moderate to high Reynolds number, 2021, Powder Technology
  • Local Structure Effects on Heat Transfer in Very Low Tube-to-Particle Diameter Ratio Fixed Beds of Spheres, 2021, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • General correlation for pressure drop through randomly-packed beds of spheres with negligible wall effects, 2023, AIChE Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • AIChE Journal
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Powder Technology

Collaborations include work with Behnam Partopour, Patrícia Metolina, André Luiz Nunis da Silva, Roberto Guardani, and Yan Wu. Each of these co-authors has contributed to research efforts alongside Anthony G. Dixon.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical prediction of effective heat transfer parameters in packed beds

    Anthony G. Dixon;David L. Cresswell

  • Dense perovskite membrane reactors for partial oxidation of methane to syngas

    Chung-Yi Tsai;Anthony G. Dixon;William R. Moser;Yi Hua Ma

  • CFD study of fluid flow and wall heat transfer in a fixed bed of spheres

    Michiel Nijemeisland;Anthony G. Dixon

  • CFD as a Design Tool for Fixed-Bed Reactors

    Anthony G. Dixon;Michiel Nijemeisland

  • Comparison of CFD simulations to experiment for convective heat transfer in a gas-solid fixed bed

    Michiel Nijemeisland;Anthony G Dixon

  • Correlations for wall and particle shape effects on fixed bed bulk voidage

    Anthony G. Dixon

  • Systematic mesh development for 3D CFD simulation of fixed beds: Contact points study

    Anthony G. Dixon;Michiel Nijemeisland;E. Hugh Stitt

  • Theory of gas diffusion and permeation in inorganic molecular-sieve membranes

    A. B. Shelekhin;A. G. Dixon;Y. H. Ma

  • Dense Perovskite, La1-xA′xFe1-yCoyO3-δ (A′= Ba, Sr, Ca), Membrane Synthesis, Applications, and Characterization

    Chung-Yi Tsai;Anthony G. Dixon;Yi Hua Ma;William R. Moser

  • Packed Tubular Reactor Modeling and Catalyst Design using Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Anthony G. Dixon;Michiel Nijemeisland;E. Hugh Stitt

  • Local transport and reaction rates in a fixed bed reactor tube: Endothermic steam methane reforming

    Anthony G. Dixon

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics for Fixed Bed Reactor Design.

    Anthony G Dixon;Behnam Partopour

  • An integrated workflow for resolved-particle packed bed models with complex particle shapes

    Behnam Partopour;Anthony G. Dixon

  • Fixed bed catalytic reactor modelling—the radial heat transfer problem

    Anthony G. Dixon

  • Computational fluid dynamics simulations of fluid flow and heat transfer at the wall-particle contact points in a fixed-bed reactor

    S.A. Logtenberg;M. Nijemeisland;A.G. Dixon

  • Adsorption, permeation, and diffusion of gases in microporous membranes. II. Permeation of gases in microporous glass membranes

    A.B. Shelekhin;A.G. Dixon;Y.H. Ma

  • CFD Method To Couple Three-Dimensional Transport and Reaction inside Catalyst Particles to the Fixed Bed Flow Field

    Anthony G. Dixon;M. Ertan Taskin;Michiel Nijemeisland;E. Hugh Stitt

  • Experimental validation of high Reynolds number CFD simulations of heat transfer in a pilot-scale fixed bed tube

    Anthony G. Dixon;Gregory Walls;Helen Stanness;Michiel Nijemeisland

  • An improved equation for the overall heat transfer coefficient in packed beds

    Anthony G. Dixon

  • Catalyst design by CFD for heat transfer and reaction in steam reforming

    Michiel Nijemeisland;Anthony G. Dixon;E. Hugh Stitt

  • WALL AND PARTICLE-SHAPE EFFECTS ON HEAT TRANSFER IN PACKED BEDS

    Anthony G. Dixon

  • Systematic mesh development for 3D CFD simulation of fixed beds: Single sphere study

    Anthony G. Dixon;M. Ertan Taskin;Michiel Nijemeisland;E. Hugh Stitt

  • Computational fluid dynamics studies of fixed bed heat transfer

    Simon A. Logtenberg;Anthony G. Dixon

  • Fluid-phase radial transport in packed beds of low tube-to-particle diameter ratio

    Anthony G. Dixon;Michael A. DiCostanzo;Brian A. Soucy

  • Heat Transfer in Fixed Beds at Very Low (<4) Tube-to-Particle Diameter Ratio

    Anthony G. Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Suib
Steven L. Suib University of Connecticut
Nikolaos Kazantzis
Nikolaos Kazantzis Monash University
Alberto Cuoci
Alberto Cuoci Polytechnic University of Milan

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