Micromixing effects in a couette flow reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 13-14, 1999, Pages 2883-2888

  Liu, C I ^a   Lee, D J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Couette flow; Hydrodynamic instability; Measurement; Micromixing; Mixing time; Segregation index

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

COUETTE FLOW REACTOR; HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; MICROMIXING EFFECTS; MIXING TIME; SEGREGATION INDEX; TAYLOR VORTEX MOTION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

COUETTE FLOW; MIXING; REACTOR;

EID: 0033166899     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00341-8     Document Type: Article

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