Simulation of laminar and turbulent impeller stirred tanks using immersed boundary method and large eddy simulation technique in multi-block curvilinear geometries

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1351-1363

  Tyagi, Mayank ^a   Roy, Somnath ^b   Harvey III, Albert D ^c   Acharya, Sumanta ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical processes; Immersed boundary method; Large eddy simulation; Mixing; Simulation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHEMICAL PROCESSES; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES);

SETTLING TANKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; SETTLING TANKS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33846198791     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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