Novel Mixing and Separation Method through Vortex Stirrer

Vortex flow generated by a magnetic stirrer

Gábor Halász, Balázs Gyüre, Imre M. Jánosi, K. Gábor Szabó, and Tamás Tél von Kármán Laboratory for Environmental Flows, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary Department of Fluid Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology, H-1111, Bertalan L. u. 4–6, Budapest, Hungary and Previous address: HAS Research Group for Theoretical Physics, H-1518, P.O. Box 32, Budapest, Hung...

Mixing Enhancement by Dual Speed Rotating Stirrer

MIXING ENHANCEMENT BY DUAL SPEED ROTATING STIRRER by Arnaud Goullet Stirring is a well-known means of fluid mixing due to the emergence of complex patterns in the flow, even at low Reynolds numbers. In this work, we consider a stirrer rotating along a circular trajectory at constant speed. The fluid flow, considered incompressible, inviscid and two dimensional (in a circular container), is mode...

Numerical method for optimizing stirrer configurations

A numerical approach for the numerical optimization of stirrer configurations is presented. The methodology is based on a parametrized grid generator, a flow solver, and a mathematical optimization tool, which are integrated into an automated procedure. The flow solver is based on the discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations by means of the finite-volume method for block-structured, bounda...

Microfluidic mixing and separation

A novel MLPG-Finite-Volume Mixed Method for Analyzing Stokesian Flows & Study of a new Vortex Mixing Flow

The two dimensional steady state Stokes equations are solved by using a novel MLPG-Mixed Finite Volume method, that is based on the independent meshless interpolations of the deviatoric velocity strain tensor, the volumetric velocity strain tensor, the velocity vector and the pressure. The pressure field directly obtained from this method does not suffer from the malady of checker-board pattern...