“…), the designing process which incorporates modeling and numerical simulation becomes much easier and thus saves researchers and engineers much time and cost of field experiments. Specifically, FLUENT, as a typical general purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, has been frequently applied by CAE engineers in the field of water treatment, because hydrodynamic lays a solid foundation for the design, evaluation, and optimization for structures (Balan et al, 2019; Braak et al, 2017; Ding et al, 2013; Fan et al, 2007; Jensen et al, 2006) and equipment (Ibrahim et al, 2013; O'Doherty et al, 2009) for a long time (Bush & Silveston, 1978; Glover et al, 2006; Jiang et al, 2014; Peng et al, 2014). Recently, with the development of energy and dissipation models, the performance of FLUENT solver in simulating the mixing process within in‐line static mixers has been validated by a large number of published papers (Hobbs & Muzzio, 1997; Byrde & Sawley, 1999; Cheng et al, 2016; Haddadi et al, 2020; Hobbs et al, 1998; Hobbs, Muzzio, 1998a, 1998b; Ir & Lecjaks, 2011; Kumar et al, 2008; Lang et al, 1995; Rahmani et al, 2007; Rauline et al, 2000).…”