Simultaneous investigation of macro- and micro-mixing in a static mixer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 79, Issue , 2012, Pages 8-18

  Lehwald, Andreas ^a   Janiga, Gábor ^a   Thévenin, Dominique ^a   Zähringer, Katharina ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; LIF PIV; Macro mixing; Micro mixing; POD; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; FOURIER; INFLOW CONDITIONS; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; LIF/PIV; MACRO-MIXING; MICRO-MIXING; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; POD; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SEGREGATION INDEX; SMALL SCALE; STATIC MIXERS; VELOCITY FIELD;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; VISUALIZATION;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84862165890     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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