The flow field produced by a pitched blade turbine: characterization of the turbulence and estimation of the dissipation rate

SM Kresta, PE Wood - Chemical engineering science, 1993 - Elsevier
This paper compares various methods which have been used for the estimation of turbulent
length scales, and/or the rate of dissipation of turbulence kinetic energy (ε) in stirred tanks …

The mean flow field produced by a 45 pitched blade turbine: changes in the circulation pattern due to off bottom clearance

SM Kresta, PE Wood - The Canadian Journal of Chemical …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The impeller discharge stream and bulk circulation flow produced by a pitched blade turbine
(PBT) in a fully baffled stirred tank have been defined, using a combination of flow …

Low frequency macroinstabilities in a stirred tank: scale-up and prediction based on large eddy simulations

V Roussinova, SM Kresta, R Weetman - Chemical Engineering Science, 2003 - Elsevier
In this work, the effect of scale on the macroinstability is examined using data from a 1.22 m
diameter tank. In a previous study coherent macroinstabilities (MI) in a stirred tank agitated …

Study of macro-instabilities in stirred tanks using a velocity decomposition technique

VT Roussinova, B Grgic, SM Kresta - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2000 - Elsevier
In this paper a quantitative measure of errors introduced in the turbulent velocity RMS signal
due to the presence of macroinstabilities (MI) in the velocity field is presented. The velocity …

The effect of geometry on the stability of flow patterns in stirred tanks

D Chapple, S Kresta - Chemical engineering science, 1994 - Elsevier
The stability of circulation patterns in stirred tanks was examined using tuft flow visualization.
Tufts were placed throughout the tank and their direction was recorded continuously for 20 …

Resonant geometries for circulation pattern macroinstabilities in a stirred tank

VT Roussinova, SM Kresta, R Weetman - AIChE journal, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Circulation pattern macroinstabilities and precessing vortices are known to exist in stirred
tanks, but until recently they have eluded a full quantitative analysis. In this article, frequency …

Macro-instability characteristic in agitated tank based on flow visualization experiment and large eddy simulation

T Nurtono, H Setyawan, A Altway, S Winardi - … Engineering Research and …, 2009 - Elsevier
The complexity of flow in an agitated tank comes in part from the global change of flow
pattern from one type to another alternately on a long time scale. This phenomenon is …

Unstable phenomenon of flow in a mixing vessel with a marine propeller

S Winardi, Y Nagase - Journal of chemical engineering of Japan, 1991 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Unstable flow phenomena in a mixing vessel with a marine propeller were investigated
experimentally using flow visualization and LDV techniques. It was found that the …

Flow pattern analysis in a rotating scraped surface plate heat exchanger

DS Martínez, JP Solano, PG Vicente… - Applied Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
The flow pattern inside a scraped surface plate heat exchanger used for ice slurry
production is studied both experimentally and numerically. Isothermal planar velocity fields …

Effect of the attack angle on the roll and trailing vortex structures in an agitated vessel with a paddle impeller

K Suzukawa, S Mochizuki, H Osaka - Chemical engineering science, 2006 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study is to observe the effect of the blade attack angle on the roll
and trailing vortex structures in a stirred vessel via laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV). In this …