Mixing characteristics of shear-thinning fluids in a fractal perforating impeller stirred reactor

D Gu, T Yang, L Xie - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fractal perforating impeller was introduced to minimize the stagnation zone and enlarge the
well-mixed zone for the mixing process of shear-thinning fluids with yield stress in a stirred …

Numerical simulation of solid-liquid mixing characteristics in a stirred tank with fractal impellers

D Gu, C Cheng, Z Liu, Y Wang - Advanced Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The hydrodynamics of solid-liquid mixing process in a stirred tank with four pitched-blade
impellers, fractal 1 impellers, and fractal 2 impellers were investigated using computational …

Investigation on solid particles and pseudoplastic fluid mixing characteristics in a dislocated self-similarity impeller stirred reactor

D Gu, J Wang, H Yang, Y Deng - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A dislocated self-similarity impeller (DS impeller) was introduced in the solid particles and
pseudoplastic fluid mixing process. The investigation on the mixing performance of a …

Power consumption and form drag of regular and fractal‐shaped turbines in a stirred tank

K Steiros, PJK Bruce, ORH Buxton… - AIChE Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous wind‐tunnel measurements have shown that fractal‐shaped plates have increased
drag compared to square plates of the same area. In this study, the power consumption and …

Vortex shedding effects in grid-generated turbulence

G Melina, PJK Bruce, JC Vassilicos - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
The flow on the centerline of grid-generated turbulence is characterized via hot-wire
anemometry for three grids with different geometry: a regular grid (RG60), a fractal grid …

Vortex shedding and aerodynamic performance of airfoil with multiscale trailing-edge modifications

J Nedić, JC Vassilicos - AIAA Journal, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
An experimental investigation was conducted into the nature of the vortex shedding
generated by truncated and nonflat serrated trailing edges of a NACA 0012 wing section as …

Chaotic mixing and mass transfer characteristics of fractal impellers in gas-liquid stirred tank

D Gu, Y Mei, L Wen, X Wang, Z Liu - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gas-liquid mixing characteristics in fractal impeller stirred tank were experimentally
investigated by measuring multi-scale entropy (MSE), relative power demand (RPD), local …

Influence of coherent structures on the evolution of an axisymmetric turbulent jet

M Breda, ORH Buxton - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The role of initial conditions in affecting the evolution toward self-similarity of an
axisymmetric turbulent jet is examined. The jet's near-field coherence was manipulated by …

Numerical analysis of the wake of complex-shaped snow particles at moderate Reynolds number

G Tagliavini, M McCorquodale, C Westbrook… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Climate model parametrization relies strongly on the prediction of snow precipitation, which
in turn depends upon the snowflakes falling motion in air. The falling attitudes of such …

The age of a wake

T Radko, D Lewis - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study attempts to quantify the decay rates of stratified wakes in active oceanic
environments, characterized by the presence of intermittent turbulence and double-diffusive …