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Large eddy simulation of an aerated Rushton stirred tank

Arlov, Dragana LU ; Revstedt, Johan LU and Fuchs, Laszlo LU (2006) Conference on Turbulence and Interactions TI2006
Abstract
Simulations of aerated stirred reactor is performed using Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The gas phase is modelled using Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT). The reactor is stirred by a single impeller Rushton turbine, centred in the reactor. The air is introduced at the bottom wall through a circular sparger. The main focus is to investigate how the gas phase affects the liquid in the reactor. Effects of gas volume flow and stirrer speed are investigated. The results show that the time averaged liquid velocities in the radial and tangential directions as well as the pumping capacity decrease with increasing gas volume fraction. In the axial direction the gas redirects the radial jet upwards breaking the symmetry of the ring vortices.
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  abstract     = {{Simulations of aerated stirred reactor is performed using Large  Eddy Simulation (LES). The gas phase is modelled using Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT). The reactor is stirred by a single impeller Rushton turbine, centred in the reactor. The air is introduced at the bottom wall through a circular sparger. The main focus is to investigate how the gas phase affects the liquid in the reactor.  Effects of gas volume flow and stirrer speed are  investigated. The results show that the time averaged liquid velocities in the radial and tangential directions as well as the pumping capacity decrease with increasing gas volume fraction. In the axial direction the gas redirects the radial jet upwards breaking the symmetry of the ring vortices.}},
  author       = {{Arlov, Dragana and Revstedt, Johan and Fuchs, Laszlo}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  title        = {{Large eddy simulation of an aerated Rushton stirred tank}},
  url          = {{http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.553.902&rep=rep1&type=pdf}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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