PIV experiments and large eddy simulations of single-loop flow fields in Rushton turbine stirred tanks |
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Authors: | Zhipeng Li Yuyun Bao Zhengming Gao |
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Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Mailbox 230, Beijing 100029, PR China |
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Abstract: | The single-loop flow fields in Rushton turbine stirred tanks with clearance C=0.15T (T is tank diameter) were investigated by using particle image velocimetry (PIV) experiments and large eddy simulation (LES) methods. The velocity and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) were carefully measured and resolved with high resolution camera. The regions with high TKE are affected by the movement of the trailing vortices generated behind the impeller blades. The effects of both geometrical configuration and Reynolds number were discussed. It is found that the Reynolds number has little effect on the mean flow for the configuration of impeller diameter D=T/3, C=0.15T. However, the single-loop flow pattern is changed into a double-loop one if D is increased from T/3 to T/2. The LES results were compared with the PIV experiments and the laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) data in the literature. The effect of the grid was validated, and the levels of local anisotropy of turbulence near the impeller discharge regions were investigated. Both the phase-averaged and phase-resolved LES results are in good agreement with the PIV experimental data, and are better than the predictions of the k–ε model. The agreement shows that the LES method can be used to simulate the complex flow fields in stirred tanks. |
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Keywords: | PIV experiment Large eddy simulation Hydrodynamics Mixing Numerical analysis Turbulence |
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