Numerical investigation of the effect of the Rushton type turbine design factors on agitated tank flow characteristics

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1340-1349

  Yapici, Kerim ^a   Karasozen, Bulent ^a   Schäfer, Michael ^b   Uludag, Yusuf ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agitated tank; Computational fluid dynamics; Finite volume method; Large eddy simulation; Rushton turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

AGITATED TANK; RUSHTON TURBINE;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 43849108992     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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