Isolated mixing regions: Origin, robustness and control

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1623-1636

  Bresler, Leo ^a   Shinbrot, Troy ^a   Metcalfe, Guy ^a,b   Ottino, Julio M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chaotic fluid mixing; isolated regions

Indexed keywords

CHAOS; INDUSTRY; MIXING;

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ISOLATED MIXING REGIONS (IMR);

MIXING;

EID: 0030615991     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00406-X     Document Type: Article

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