A study on intermittency phenomena in the impeller stream via digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV)

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-33

  Fan, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Yundong ^a   Rao, Qi ^a   Fei, Weiyang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coherent spectral analysis; Digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV); Intermittency in the impeller stream; Macro instability (MI); Spatially averaged vorticity; Stirred reactor

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC TURBINES; IMPELLERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (DPIV); RUSHTON TURBINE (RT) IMPELLER;

STREAM FLOW;

IMPELLER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

EID: 2942740843     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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