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Swirling Flow and Mixing

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A liquid in a rigid vessel subjected to external forced excitation becomes unstable under certain conditions due to strong nonlinear effects [1–12]. A variety of modes of liquid surface oscillations occur such as rotary sloshing or swirl. Such oscillations exert significant influence on the safety of cylindrical tanks preserving petroleum, tankers carrying petroleum, rocket boosters, and liquid containers in many chemical and mechanical plants. When the amplitudes of the oscillations are sufficiently large, the vessels are sometimes destroyed or ruptured, resulting in huge economic losses. A number of theoretical and experimental investigations have been done to understand the oscillation modes of liquids in circular cylindrical tanks [6, 10], spherical tanks [7, 10], sector-compartmented circular cylindrical tanks [3, 8], and long rectangular tanks [12]. Some aspects of the rotary sloshing or swirl are briefly reviewed in this section.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering Division Materials Science & Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8628, Japan

    Manabu Iguchi

  2. Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Central Florida Blvd. 4000, Orlando, Fl, 32816, USA

    Olusegun J. Ilegbusi

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Iguchi, M., Ilegbusi, O.J. (2011). Swirling Flow and Mixing. In: Modeling Multiphase Materials Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7479-2_5

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