Flow structure and the effect of macro-instabilities in a pitched-blade stirred tank

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3009-3024

  Roy, Somnath ^a   Acharya, Sumanta ^a   Cloeter, Michael D ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Macro instability; Stirred tank; Trailing edge vortex; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CURVILINEAR MESHES; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; IMPELLER GEOMETRY; IMPELLER ROTATION; LOW FREQUENCY DYNAMICS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MACRO INSTABILITIES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; PITCHED BLADE IMPELLER; ROTATIONAL SPEED; STIRRED TANK; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; TIME SIGNALS; TIME-AVERAGED FLOW; TRAILING EDGE VORTEX; TRAILING EDGES; TRAILING VORTEX; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77950595586     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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