Power Requirement when Mixing a Shear-Thickening Fluid with a Helical Ribbon Impeller Type

Using CFD and Ultrasonic velocimetry to

Using CFD and Ultrasonic velocimetry to Study the Mixing of Pseudoplastic Fluids with a Helical Ribbon Impeller

✍ I. Ihejirika; F. Ein-Mozaffari 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 441 KB

## Abstract A commercial CFD package was used to simulate the 3D flow field generated in a cylindrical tank by a helical ribbon impeller. The study was carried out using a pseudoplastic fluid with yield stress in the laminar mixing region. Ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry (UDV), a noninvasive fluid f