Abstract

The present study deals with the numerical simulation of stirred tank in the presence of nanofluids to see the effect of different volume fraction (ϕ) of nanoparticles on the behaviour of flow characteristics and for the calculation of mixing time in the entire tank. The flow is assumed to be steady, axisymmetric, two dimensional and incompressible. For the simulation of flow inside the vessel, partially-averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) ku − ϵu turbulence model is used. Control volume method has been taken to descretize the governing equation along with power-law schemes. Further, semi-implicit method for pressure-linked equations revised (SIMPLER) algorithm and line-by-line tri-diagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA) have been taken to obtain the solution. The objective is to investigate the influence of ϕ on the characteristic flow variables and to calculate mixing time for different ϕ of nanofluids and for different values of fk, PANS model parameter. It is noted that with the increase in ϕ, mixing time has also been increased and it increases very fast for PANS ku − ϵu model with the increase in filter width fk.

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