An assessment of different turbulence models for predicting flow in a baffled tank stirred with a Rushton turbine

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5976-5988

  Singh, Harminder ^a   Fletcher, David F ^b   Nijdam, Justin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFD; Fluid mechanics; Mathematical modelling; Mixing; Turbulence; Turbulence energy dissipation rate

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CURVATURE CORRECTION; IMPELLER BLADES; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; RADIAL VELOCITY; RUSHTON TURBINES; SOLUTION TIME; STATISTICAL AVERAGING; STIRRED TANK; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; TANK STIRRED; TRAILING VORTEX; TURBULENCE ENERGY; TURBULENCE ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; IMPELLERS; MIXING; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBINES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 80053261988     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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