Large Eddy simulation of the gas-liquid flow in a stirred tank

AIChE Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1963-1974

  Zhang, Yanhong ^a,b   Yang, Chao ^a,c   Mao, Zai Sha ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Jiangsu Institute of Marine Resource Exploitation   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Gas liquid flow; Large eddy simulation; Stirred tank; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EDDY CURRENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GASES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; CONVECTIVE KINEMATICS; EULERIAN; EULERIAN TWO-FLUID MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GAS LIQUID TWO PHASE FLOWS; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS-LIQUID FLOW; GAS-LIQUID FLOWS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; LARG E EDDY SIMULATIONS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; LIQUID PHASES; LIQUID-PHASE; ROTATING IMPELLERS; RUSHTON IMPELLERS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; STAGGERED GRIDS; STIRRED TANK; STIRRED TANKS; SUB GRIDS; THIRD-ORDER; TURBULENT MODELS;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 49049091155     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11516     Document Type: Article

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