Morphology development in kenics static mixers (application of the extended mapping method)

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 604-613

  Galaktionov, Oleksiy S ^a   Anderson, Patrick D ^a   Peters, Gerrit W M ^a   Meijer, Han E H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Kenics static mixer; Laminar mixing; Mapping method; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

CHAOTIC FLOW; EXTENDED MAPPING METHODS; KENICS STATIC MIXERS; SPATIALLY PERIODIC FLOWS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

FLOW STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL TENSION; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXER; MIXING;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXER; TENSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0842324139     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450800424     Document Type: Article

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