Assessment of large eddy and RANS stirred tank simulations by means of LDA

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2419-2432

  Hartmann, H ^a   Derksen, J J ^a   Montavon, C ^b   Pearson, J ^b   Hamill, I S ^b   van den Akker, H E A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid dynamics; LDA; Mixing; Simulations; Stirred tank; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SHEAR-STRESS-TRANSPORT (SST); STIRRED TANKS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STIRRED TANK; TURBULENCE;

EID: 2442445224     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.01.065     Document Type: Article

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