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Chemical Engineering Science64- 4209 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Chemical Engineering Science journal homepage:w w w.e l s e v i e r.c o m/l o c a t e/c e s Measurements and modelling of free-surface turbulent flows induced by a magnetic stirrer in an unbaffled stirred tank reactor Tariq Mahmud a,?,Jennifer N.Haque a,Kevin J.Roberts a,Dominic Rhodes b,Derek Wilkinson c a Institute of Particle Science and Engineering,School of Process,Environmental and Materials Engineering,The University of Leeds,Leeds LS29JT,UK b National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd.,Sellafield,Seascale CA201PG,UK c Centre for Molecular an d Interfac e Engineering,School o f Engineerin g and Physical Sciences,Heriot-Watt University,Edinburg h EH144AS,UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received2March2009 Received in revised form2June2009 Accepted3June2009 Available online25June2009 Keywords: Free-surface flow Vortex CFD for free-surface flow Volume-of-fluid Unbaffled agitated vessel Hydrodynamics Magnetic stirrer mixing Nuclear fuel reprocessing Measurements and numerical simulations of turbulent flows with free-surface vortex in an unbaffled reactor agitated by a cylindrical magnetic stirrer are presented.Measurements of the three mean and fluctuating components of the velocity vector are made using a laser Doppler velocimetry in order to characterise the flow field at different speeds of the stirrer.A homogeneous Eulerian–Eulerian multiphase flow model coupled with a volume-of-fluid method for interface capturing is applied to determine the vortex shape and to compute the turbulent flow field in the reactor.Turbulence is modelled using a second-moment differential Reynolds-stress transport(RSTmodel,but for some cases the k– /k– based shear-stress transport(SSTmodel is also used.The predictions obtained using the ANSYS CFX-5.7computational fluid dynamics code are compared with the images of the vortex and the measured distributions of mean axial,radial