Taylor-Couette unit with a lobed inner cylinder cross section

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1109-1120

  Soos, Miroslav ^a   Wu, Hua ^a   Morbidelli, Massimo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamic; Mixing unit; Reactor; Shear rate; Taylor Couette; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

GAP WIDTHS; MIXING UNIT; STIRRED TANK (ST); TAYLOR-COUETTE;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); SHEAR DEFORMATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34248587261     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11153     Document Type: Article

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