Simulation of flows in stirred vessels agitated by dual Rushton impellers using computational snapshot approach

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 236-253

  Deshpande, Vaibhav R ^a   Ranade, Vivek V ^b  

^a Centro Svizzero Di Calcolo Scientifico   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Dual Rushton turbines; Snapshot approach; Stirred vessels

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPELLERS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

STIRRED VESSELS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; IMPELLER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODELING; STIRRED TANK;

EID: 0242380850     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986440302144     Document Type: Article

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