PIV Applications in Mixing

The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to predict the flow fields in various industrial mixers has increased substantially during the last few years. 

Time-dependent mixing flows, coupled with complex geometry, bring uncertainty to the CFD predictions, especially for turbulent flows. This has also increased the interest in experimental verification of the simulations. 

in addition to the traditional experimentalist who obtains the mixing information experimentally, more and more CFD users are turning to PIV to measure the initial and boundary conditions in their mixer and to verify the results of their simulations. 

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