CFD Deign of Jet-Stirred Reactors

Model assessment of synthetic jets for turbulent combustion experiments

“…CVCC facility surveys have been summarized elsewhere (Ravi et al 2012). Generally, most turbulent CVCCs employ impellers (Ravi et al 2012;Bradley et al 2019;Mannaa et al 2019;Morones et al 2019) for relatively uniform turbulence generation, although recent reports suggest that traditional jets (i.e., nozzles) may also be used to create highly uniform turbulence (Davani and Ronney 2017;Davani et al 2019). However, each experimental agitation method has unique limitations, such as vortical biases induced by impellers (Bonhomme et al 2014;Bradley et al 2019;Mannaa et al 2019) or the pumping challenges (i.e., high pressure drop) required by the small openings of jet nozzles.…”