Effect of chaotic interfacial stretching on bimolecular chemical reaction in helical-coil reactors

Chemical Engineering Journal and the Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 129-139

  Sawyers, David R ^a   Sen, Mihir ^a   Chang, Hsueh Chia ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic advection; Chaotic mixing; Helical coil; Tubular reactor

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; LAMINAR FLOW; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MIXING;

ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATIONS; BIMOLECULAR CHEMICAL REACTION; CHAOTIC MIXING; COILING GEOMETRY; FLOW KINEMATICS; HELICAL COILS; INTERFACIAL BOUNDARY LAYER; PECLET NUMBER; SECONDARY TRANSVERSE FLOW; TUBULAR REACTORS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0030252551     PISSN: 09230467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0923-0467(96)03132-6     Document Type: Article

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