Transition of organized flow structure in a stirred vessel at low Reynolds numbers

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1458-1463

  Ohmura, Naoto ^a   Makino, Tukasa ^a   Kaise, Takuya ^a   Kataoka, Kunio ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kansai Chemical Engineering Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaotic mixing; Flow visualization; Isolated mixing region; Laminar flow; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMPELLERS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ISOLATED MIXING REGIONS (IMR); STIRRED VESSELS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STIRRED TANK;

EID: 1342289241     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.36.1458     Document Type: Article

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