Convective mixing, mechanism

Experimental Studies The Two Spontaneous Convective Mixing Mechanisms of Rollover... 

The difference in the Li abundances in the G-stars of the Pleiades and the Sun, combined with the probable similarities in their overall chemical composition tell us that PMS Li depletion cannot be the whole story. Another mechanism, additional to convective mixing, must be responsible for Li depletion whilst solar-type stars are on the main-sequence. Recent PMS models that have their convective treatments tuned to match the structure of the Sun reproduce the mass dependence of Li depletion, but deplete too much Li compared with the Pleiades, and can even explain the solar A (Li) in the case of full spectrum turbulence models [9]. The over-depletion with respect to the Pleiades gets worse at lower masses. Better fits to the Pleiades data are achieved with PMS models that feature relatively inefficient convection with smaller mixing lengths. 

AGB stars constitute excellent laboratories to test the theory of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. Their particular internal structure allows two important processes to occur in them. First is the so-called 3(,ldredge-up (3DUP), a mixing mechanism in which the convective envelope penetrates the interior of the star after each thermal instability in the He-shell (thermal pulse, TP). The other is the activation of the s-process synthesis from alpha captures on 13C or/and 22Ne nuclei that generate the necessary neutrons which are subsequently captured by iron-peak nuclei. The repeated operation of TPs and the 3DUP episodes enriches the stellar envelope in newly synthesized elements and transforms the star into a carbon star, if the quantity of carbon added into the envelope is sufficient to increase the C/O ratio above unity. In that way, the atmosphere becomes enriched with the ashes of the above nucleosynthesis processes which can then be detected spectroscopically. 

The axial dispersion coefficient [cf. Eq. (16-51)] lumps together all mechanisms leading to axial mixing in packed beds. Thus, the axial dispersion coefficient must account not only for molecular diffusion and convective mixing but also for nonuniformities in the fluid velocity across the packed bed. As such, the axial dispersion coefficient is best determined experimentally for each specific contactor. 

In principle these should be predictable from theory, but in practice there are many grey areas such as the effects of rotation, convective mixing, mass loss, the mechanism of stellar explosions, nuclear reaction rates such as 12C(a, y)160, the evolution of close binaries and the corresponding mass limits between which various things happen for differing initial chemical compositions. Figure 5.14 shows a version of what may happen in single stars with different initial masses and two metallicities, Z Z and Z Z /20. 

These mechanisms operate to varying extents in different kinds of mixers and with different kinds of particles. A trough mixer with a ribbon spiral involves almost pure convective mixing, and a simple barrel-mixer involves mainly a form of diffusion mixing. 

Make sure that changes in scale have not changed the dominant mixing mechanism in the blender (i.e., convective to dispersive). This can often happen by introducing asymmetry in the loading conditions. 

In polymer processing, because of the very high viscosities of polymeric melts, the flow is laminar and eddy motion due to turbulence is absent therefore, it cannot contribute to mixing. Similarly, molecular diffusion does not contribute much to mixing because it occurs extremely slowly. We are therefore left with convection as the dominant mixing mechanism.2... 

The existence of the Black Sea bottom convective layer (BCL) has important implications for the physical and chemical exchange at the sediment/water interface and at the interface between intermediate and bottom water masses. Two-fold increased vertical gradients of dissolved sulphide at the upper boundary of the BCL suggest the presence of the anoxic interface separating entire anoxic water mass dominated by turbulent diffusion from underlying waters of the BCL where double diffusion is the main mixing mechanism. 

Mixing Mechanisms There are several basic mechanisms by which solid particles are mixed. These include small-scale random motion (diffusion), large-scale random motion (convection), and shear. 

For tumbling mixers, there are three main mechanisms for mixing convective mixing, shear mixing, and dispersive or diffusive mixing. " All three mechanisms are present to some extent in free-fall mixers. During scale-up, as the batch size is increased, so are the forces (gravitational, convective, and shear) that... 

Mixing Mechanisms Dispersive and Convective Mixing The mixing process can be observed in diagrammatic form as an over-... 

Convection. The transfer of heat by the mixing or movements of fluids or fluids with a solid. Mixing may occur as a result of density difference alone, as in natural convection. Alternatively, mechanically induced agitation may produce forced convection, as in turbulent flow in a heat exchanger tube, or to the heat transfer fluid in the jacket of an agitated vessel. The rate of heat transfer is ... 

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