Velocity Profiles in a Baffled Vessel with Single or Double Pitched-Blade Turbines

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-54

  Armenante, Piero M ^a   Chou, Chun Chiao ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLOW PATTERNS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BAFFLED VESSELS; CIRCULATION FLOW; FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; IMPELLER; MIXING VESSELS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE FLUENT; TURBULENCE EFFECTS; VERTICAL RECIRCULATION PATTERN;

TURBINES;

BAFFLED; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOUBLE PITCHED-BLADE; PROFILES; TURBINES; VELOCITY; VESSELS;

EID: 0029676004     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420106     Document Type: Article

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