Evaluation of laminar mixing in stirred tanks using a discrete-time particle-mapping procedure

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 667-684

  Harvey III, Albert D ^a,b   West, David H ^a   Tufillaro, Nicholas B ^a  

^a Dow Chemical Company   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic laminar mixing; Impeller stirred tanks; Particle integration

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHAOS THEORY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

PARTICLE MAPPING; STIRRED TANKS;

MIXING;

LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; STIRRED TANK;

EID: 0343384359     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00309-7     Document Type: Article

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