Simulation inclined blade stirrer

Inclined blade stirrer CAD building groups in NOGRID's COMPASS

Figure 1: CAD model created in NOGRID's COMPASS

Figure 2: Setup the mixing case within the GUI

Mixing simulation GUI results in NOGRID points software

Figure 3: Results of the inclined blade stirrer shown within NOGRID points' GUI

Figure 4: Mixing simulation: velocity field and free surface for inclined blade stirrer

The simulation of mixing and stirring in inclined blade stirrers can perfectly be performed with NOGRID CFD software. This inclined blade stirrer has a high rotational speed, is a tangentially and axially conveying stirrer type and is mostly used for low-viscosity media. The container shapes often have different degrees of slenderness and bottom shapes. This inclined blade stirrer has a round bottom (dished bottom) and is suitable for pressure-resistant stirring processes. Furthermore, fluid-dynamic dead zones are avoided by the continuous transition to the cylindrical container wall. Containers with low aspect ratios, such as in this case study, tend to be manufactured for small volumes. The inclined blade stirrer has a pronounced conveying effect and a vortex is still formed. A characteristic flow pattern results from the stirring speed and the shape of the container or the stirring blades.

Mixing is an important part in chemical industry and appears in processes such as dispersion of two or more liquid, powdery or gaseous ingredients, deagglomeration to avoid lumps and homogenization of mixtures.

Improve product performance and reduce costs

Mixing simulation can help to understand the flow in an agitator, to quickly suggest improvements to construction and operation parameters and to reduce production and maintenance expenses.

Compute any conceivable agitator geometry with mixing simulation

NOGRID offers a wide range of rheology models including those found in chemical industry. NOGRID's unique abilities to handle moving parts in the fluid domain allow the simulation of any conceivable agitator geometries and operation modes such as

rotating and counterwise rotating agitator blades, possibly moving up and down periodically at the same time
overlapping operation ranges of moving parts as found in twin-screw agitators
free surfaces at inlets or for different fluid levels or for fast rotating agitators with high centrifugal forces

Benefit of very short computation time

The particular strengths of NOGRID's meshless CFD software are the rapid preprocessing (no grids need to be generated) and the outstanding short computation time even for complicated moving parts commonly found in agitators.

NOGRID unites abilities to handle free surface flow and moving parts in the domain. This leads to the following advantages:

computation is in full 3D solving complete Navier-Stokes-Equations
easy and intuitive setup for mixing cases
free definable material properties by equations or curves
evaluation of the mixing quality
open or closed domains including inflow and outflow areas (non-batch mode)
moving of the mixers in any direction

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Nogrid's strengths

Particular strengths of NOGRID's fluid flow CFD software are the rapid preprocessing (no fluid grid needs to be generated, only the boundary mesh, inner finite points are generated automatically depending on User setting initially and during computation), and the outstandingly short computation time even for complicated cavities.

As you can see in the image below, the boundary of the geometry still requires a mesh to allow the interior finite points to detect the boundary. The boundary must therefore be meshed and the finite points inside are automatically generated during the simulation controlled by User specifications.

Easy and fast modelling: Build geometry, mesh boundary, setup the case and start computation

What is CFD from NOGRID?

CFD solves the fundamental equations that define the fluid flow process. With CFD software from NOGRID every engineer makes better decisions by predicting, analyzing and controlling fluid flow, heat and mass transfer or chemical reaction. By using NOGRID software for flow modeling you receive information on essential flow characteristics as for example flow distribution. Using it additional to testing and experimentation NOGRID software helps to improve the evaluation of your design – resulting in better construction and operation parameters, increasing planning security and money savings due to faster time to the marketplace for your product or process.

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