CFD simulation of annular centrifugal extractors

S Vedantam, KE Wardle, TV Tamhane… - … Journal of Chemical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Annular centrifugal extractors (ACE), also called annular centrifugal contactors offer several
advantages over the other conventional process equipment such as low hold‐up, high …

A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows

SL Conway, T Shinbrot, BJ Glasser - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Fluids sheared between concentric rotating cylinders undergo a series of three-dimensional
instabilities. Since Taylor's archetypal 1923 study, these have proved pivotal to …

Numerical simulation of bubble dispersion in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

A Chouippe, É Climent, D Legendre, C Gabillet - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate bubble dispersion in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow. The aim of this study is to
describe the main mechanisms yielding preferential bubble accumulation in near-wall …

Preferential accumulation of bubbles in Couette-Taylor flow patterns

E Climent, M Simonnet, J Magnaudet - Physics of Fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the migration of bubbles in several flow patterns occurring within the gap
between a rotating inner cylinder and a concentric fixed outer cylinder. The time-dependent …

Interfacial area in gas–liquid Couette–Taylor flow reactor

E Dłuska, S Wroński, T Ryszczuk - Experimental thermal and fluid science, 2004 - Elsevier
In this study the specific interfacial area (gas–liquid) generated within a stirred tank and
Couette–Taylor–Poiseuille flow (CTPF) reactor was determined for a range rotational …

Drag reduction in numerical two-phase Taylor–Couette turbulence using an Euler–Lagrange approach

V Spandan, R Ostilla-Mónico, R Verzicco… - Journal of fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Two-phase turbulent Taylor–Couette (TC) flow is simulated using an Euler–Lagrange
approach to study the effects of a secondary phase dispersed into a turbulent carrier phase …

Two-phase Couette–Taylor flow: arrangement of the dispersed phase and effects on the flow structures

H Djeridi, C Gabillet, JY Billard - Physics of fluids, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigates the mutual interactions between a continuous and a dispersed phase
(noncondensable or condensable) in the well-known Couette–Taylor flow between two …

CFD investigation of bubble effects on Taylor–Couette flow patterns in the weakly turbulent vortex regime

X Gao, B Kong, RD Vigil - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
The effect of gas bubbles on Taylor–Couette flow patterns in the transition from laminar to
weakly turbulent vortex flow is investigated by quasi-2D and 3D CFD simulation. The CFD …

In situ monitoring the productivity of ultra-small gold nanoparticles generated by pulsed-laser ablation of a high-speed rotating gold target in pure water

Y Mansour, Y Battie, AE Naciri, N Chaoui - Nanotechnology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the productivity of ultra-small gold nanoparticles generated by pulsed-laser
ablation in liquid of a high-speed rotating gold target as functions of laser ablation time and …

The effects of CO2‐brine rheology on leakage processes in geologic carbon sequestration

S Wang, AF Clarens - Water Resources Research, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Leakage from geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) sites is inherently challenging to study
because CO2, driven by buoyant forces, travels over long distances, undergoing phase …