Experimental study of turbulent mixing in a tee mixer using PIV and PLIF

AIChE Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2653-2665

  Pan, Gang ^a   Meng, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIXING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TURBULENT MIXING;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JET IMPINGEMENT; MIXING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; LASER; MEASUREMENT; MIXER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TUBE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0037491748     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690471205     Document Type: Article

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