Analysis of stirred tanks with two-zone models

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2545-2552

  Alopaeus, Ville ^a   Moilanen, Pasi ^b   Laakkonen, Marko ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Process Flow Oy   (Finland)

^c Neste Oil Oyj   (Finland)

Author keywords

CFD; Mixing; Stirred tanks; Zonal modeling

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD MODELING; FLUID FLOW; MIXING ANALYSIS; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL ASPECTS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; STIRRED TANK; STIRRED TANKS; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION; TWO-ZONE MODEL; ZONAL MODEL; ZONAL MODELING; ZONE MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MIXING; ZONING;

TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EID: 70349083795     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11850     Document Type: Article

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