Reacting Flow

Welcome! This webpage contains the syllabus and course materials that were used for the Reacting Flows (ENGS 199) class taught at Dartmouth College in 2006. The instructors were André Bakker and Richard D. LaRoche, in cooperation with Lee Lynd. Course materials can be found below.

Copyright notice: all lecture material published at this webpage is copyright Bakker (2006) and is provided for educational purposes only.

Part 1 - Reactor Design by R.D. LaRoche

To request more information about these lectures, please write Dr.LaRoche directly.

1. Process Equipment, Blending and Motion, Mixing Time, Power Calculations
2. Blending of Viscous Fluids
3. Mixing and Chemical Reactions
4. Gas-Liquid Mixing
5. Solid-Liquid Mixing
6. Liquid-Liquid Mixing

Part 2 - Reactor Modeling with CFD by A. Bakker

7. Modeling flow fields in stirred tanks [07-flow.pdf ]
8. Modeling general material/species transport [08-spcs.pdf ]
9. Modeling blend times in stirred tanks [09-blend.pdf ]
10. Modeling reaction performance of stirred tanks [10-react.pdf ]
11. Fermenter specific modeling issues [11-frmnt.pdf ]

Homework assignments:

Stirred tank flow field model. [hw4-flow.pdf] | [he3.msh.gz] | [pbt.msh.gz] | [rushton.msh.gz]
Species mixing. [hw6-spcs.pdf] | [kenics.cas.gz]

Supporting Material

Example FLUENT 6 file. PBT at Re=40. [pbt-Re40.zip (7.2MB)]
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Last updated on February 8, 2008 by André Bakker (e-mail: andre.bakker@ansys.com )