Decomposition of flow structures in stirred reactors and implications for mixing enhancement

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3664-3676

  Ducci, Andrea ^a   Doulgerakis, Zacharias ^a   Yianneskis, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; FLOW STRUCTURE; MECHANISMS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHENIUM;

HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBERS; MACRO INSTABILITIES; MIXING ENHANCEMENT; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING TIME; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITION; RADIAL FLOW IMPELLERS; RADIAL POSITIONING; STIRRED REACTORS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 49049093617     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070905m     Document Type: Article

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