Culture Tank Design - ResearchGate：培养箱的设计研究之门.ppt

The rotational flow in the mixed-cells of the MCR is created by the action of submerged water jets directed either tangentially or perpendicularly to the tank wall (Ebeling et al., 2005; Labatut et al., 2005a). Water jets create a momentum flux that breaks the inertial state of the flow field ahead of the jet, accelerating the fluid and creating a turbulent mixing layer at the jet boundary. This mixing layer entrains some of the surrounding liquid and creates the swirl pattern that leads to mixing of the contents (Patwardhan, 2002). Although in a jet-forced circulation vessel, such as the MCR, rotational velocities are affected by a number of variables (Labatut et al., 2005a), they are mostly controlled by the inlet flux of momentum, which is a function of both the nozzle discharge velocity (jet velocity) and the nozzle diameter. Past studies, however, have considered the inlet jet velocity as a single controlling design parameter to achieve specific rotational velocities (Paul et al., 1991), while the nozzle diameter has been disregarded. Yet, when the objective is to determine the liquid mixing time of jet-mixed tanks, the nozzle diameter has been extensively considered (Fossett, 1951; Fox and Gex, 1956; Lehrer, 1981; Lane and Rice, 1982; Simon and Fonade, 1993; Orfaniotis et al., 1996; Grenville and Tilton, 1996). Labatut et al. (2006) also showed that the flux of momentum is the driving force controlling rotational velocities in a jet-forced circulation vessel and therefore jet velocity and nozzle diameter become the main variables to control. He found that the linear influence of the jet velocity on rotational velocities reported in previous studies remained valid provided that the nozzle diameter was maintained constant. Results of the study indicated that rotational velocities in mixed-cells follow a logarithmic trend as a function of the nozzle diameter for a constant jet velocity. The linear and logarithmic models were combined to construct a set