Teaching Non-Ideal Reactors with CFD Tools

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The following movies illustrate the concentration evolution of a tracer inside the reactor. Initially, the reactor is full of water (blue), and a step profile in the concentration of a tracer (red) is imposed at the inlet boundary.

Since the convective characteristic time is significantly smaller than the diffusive characteristic time, we present two movies with different times between images, to illustrate both processes of transport.

In the first movie, the normalized time difference between images is Dq = 0.005, and the final normalized time is q = 1.5.

L/H=1 Re=10

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In the second movie, the normalized time difference between images is Δq = 0.04, and the final normalized time is q = 10.

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