Power consumption for stirring shear thinning fluids by two-blade impeller

Energy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 326-332

  Ameur, Houari ^a   Bouzit, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Power consumption; Shear thinning fluid; Two blade impeller

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CYLINDRICAL SHAPES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FINITE VOLUME; FLUID RHEOLOGY; IMPELLER SPEED; LAMINAR REGIME; LIQUID HEIGHT; LITERATURE DATA; NEW CORRELATIONS; NEWTONIANS; POLYMERIZATION REACTION; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; STIRRED VESSELS; TWO-BLADE; VESSEL DIAMETER;

IMPELLERS;

CORRELATION; CYLINDER; DATA PROCESSING; FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEWTONIAN FLUID; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; RHEOLOGY; SHAPE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VESSEL;

EID: 84873109152     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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