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On the filling of a rotating cylinder with a mixture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

M. Ungarish  and
H. P. Greenspan
M. Ungarish
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
H. P. Greenspan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Abstract

A rotating tank is filled from the outside with a mixture of particles and fluid. Under certain attainable conditions on the times for filling, separation, and spin-up, theory implies that the filling process acts like a centripetal separator in which heavy particles are actually concentrated at the inward-moving front. Centrifugal settling in the interior is counteracted by mass transport in the rotating boundary layers to produce this unusual volume-fraction distribution.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 162 , January 1986 , pp. 117 - 128
Copyright
© 1986 Cambridge University Press

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