Blending of miscible liquids with different densities starting from a stratified state

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-45

  Derksen, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active scalar; Blending; Buoyancy; Mixing; Simulations; Stratified liquids; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SCALAR; AGITATED TANK; FLOW EQUATIONS; FLOW REGIMES; HOMOGENIZATION PROCESS; MISCIBLE LIQUIDS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SIMULATIONS; STRATIFIED LIQUIDS; STRATIFIED SYSTEMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW STRUCTURE;

BLENDING; BUOYANCY; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; LIQUIDS; MIXED CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 80052345586     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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