Laminar mixing in a SMX static mixer evaluated by positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 1014-1023

  Mihailova, Olga ^a   Lim, Victor ^b,c   McCarthy, Michael J ^b   McCarthy, Kathryn L ^b   Bakalis, Serafim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Mixing; Newtonian; Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT); Static mixer; Velocity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRONS; MAGNETISM; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POSITRONS; RESONANCE; VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; DISTRIBUTIVE-MIXING; LAMINAR REGIME; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NEWTONIANS; POSITRON EMISSION PARTICLE TRACKING; STATIC MIXERS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84946474942     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2015.07.015     Document Type: Article

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