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Symposium: S14 - Mixing and Compounding
Poster Presentation
 
 

An Insight Toward the Distributive and Dispersive Mixing in a Pressure Flow

Mostafaiyan Mehdi (1)*, Wiessner Sven (1), Heinrich Gert (1)

(1) Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden - Sachsen - Germany

To investigate the effect of the rheological and geometrical parameters on the mixing quality in a laminar pressure flow, the dispersive and the distributive mixing are studied in a converging pipe. For, this purpose the mean strain function and Manas-Zloczower mixing index are calculated using an in-house finite element code to explain the effect of the rheological and geometrical parameters on the distributive and dispersive mixing, respectively. Keywords: Particle tracking, Finite element, residence time, dispersive mixing, distributive mixing