Study of flow field, power and mixing time in a two-phase stirred vessel with dual rushton impellers: Experimental observation and CFD simulation

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Zadghaffari, Ramin ^a   Moghaddas, Jafarsadegh ^a   Revstedt, Johan ^b  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CFD; Mixing time; MRF; PIV; Power; Stirred tank

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; IMPELLERS; MIXING; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBULENCE MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; MIXING TIME; MULTIPHASE APPROACH; MULTIPLE-REFERENCE FRAMES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; POWER; STIRRED TANK;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 62649157399     PISSN: 19342659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1284     Document Type: Article

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