PIV experiments and large eddy simulations of single-loop flow fields in Rushton turbine stirred tanks

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1219-1231

  Li, Zhipeng ^a   Bao, Yuyun ^a   Gao, Zhengming ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Large eddy simulation; Mixing; Numerical analysis; PIV experiment; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FLOW FIELD; DOUBLE-LOOP; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; IMPELLER BLADES; LARGE EDDY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION METHODS; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY; MEAN FLOW; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PIV EXPERIMENT; RUSHTON TURBINE STIRRED TANKS; STIRRED TANK; TANK DIAMETERS; TRAILING VORTEX; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMPELLERS; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBINES; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79551473155     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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