Convective mixing quantitative models

The use of mechanical stirrers (forced convection) is a special case of intensive homogenization. In practice, the method has been used for many years in the manufacture of optical glasses and has more recently also been introduced into tank furnaces for other glasses. Quantitative evaluation of the mixing effect has so far only been carried out on models and in laboratory melting (e.g. Cable and Hakim, 1972). 

In [16] a model was used, which combines micro-mixing and reaction with the disintegration of eddies by inertial forces. The structure of the model enables the disintegration of larger eddies by convective inertial forces to be quantitatively... 

---