(161h) A Eulerian-Lagrangian Hybrid Model for the Simulation of the Droplet Size Distribution of Liquid-Liquid Emulsions in Stirred Tank Reactors
AIChE Annual Meeting
2017
2017 Annual Meeting
North American Mixing Forum
Mixing in Multi-Phase Systems
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 2:43pm to 3:02pm
 We compare the predictions of the proposed hybrid approach with the experimental data of Boxall et al. (2010) and Wang and Calabrese (1986). Simulation results show good agreement with the experimental results for the droplet size distribution.
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