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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 61, Issue 9, Pages 2807-2814Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.09.021
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fluid mechanics; hydrodynamics; mixing; simulation; eccentric agitation; unbaffled vessel; PIV
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The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the shaft eccentricity on the hydrodynamics of unbaffled stirred vessels. The difference between coaxial and eccentric agitation is studied using a combination of experiments carried out by particle image velocimetry, that provide an accurate representation of the time-averaged velocity, and computational fluid dynamics simulations, that offer a complete, transient volumetric representation of the three-dimensional flow field, once a proper modelling strategy is devised. The comparison of the experimental and simulated mean flow fields has demonstrated that calculations based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are suitable for obtaining accurate results. Depending on the position of the shaft, steady-state or transient calculations have to be chosen for predicting the correct flow patterns. Care must be exerted in the choice of turbulence models, as for the unbaffled configurations the results obtained with the Reynolds stress model are superior to that of the k-epsilon model. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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