Chaotic mixing simulations

Laminar mixing of high-viscous fluids by a cylindrical chaotic mixer

Laminar mixing of glycerin in a chaotic mixer is carried by means of the blob deformation method. The mixer was a cylindrical vessel with two rotational blades which move along two different circular paths with a stepwise motion protocol. The flow visualization was performed by marking of the free surface of the flow with a tracer. The effects of controlling parameters such as rotational speed ...

Chaotic advection at large Péclet number: Electromagnetically driven experiments, numerical simulations, and theoretical predictions

Intermittent flow in yield-stress fluids slows down chaotic mixing.

We present experimental results of chaotic mixing of Newtonian fluids and yield-stress fluids using a rod-stirring protocol with a rotating vessel. We show how the mixing of yield-stress fluids by chaotic advection is reduced compared to the mixing of Newtonian fluids and explain our results, bringing to light the relevant mechanisms: the presence of fluid that only flows intermittently, a phen...

Rotation shields chaotic mixing regions from no-slip walls.

We report on the decay of a passive scalar in chaotic mixing protocols where the wall of the vessel is rotated, or a net drift of fluid elements near the wall is induced at each period. As a result the fluid domain is divided into a central isolated chaotic region and a peripheral regular region. Scalar patterns obtained in experiments and simulations converge to a strange eigenmode and follow ...

FLUID MECHANICS AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA Characterization of Flow and Mixing in an SMX Static Mixer

Laminar flow and mixing of a Newtonian fluid are characterized in a four-element Koch-Glitsch SMX static mixer. The computational analysis on a fine, unstructured mesh containing more than 3.5 million tetrahedral elements led to high-resolution numerical data for ®elocity and pressure. Computed pressure drops agreed excellently with those in the literature. The flow in this static mixer is esse...