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Experimental investigation of oil transport in a compound vortex

E. V. Stepanova, T. Chaplina, Yu. D. Chashechkin

Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119526, Russia

Abstract: Experiments were performed to study oil transport in the compound vortex produced by a uniformly rotating disk in a cylindrical container. It was found that on the liquid surface in the neighborhood of the axis of rotation, light oil formed a spot with spiral branches or broke up into separate elongated drops, and the spiral branches stretched out in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the liquid. In the bulk of the liquid in the vicinity of the axis of its rotation, oil formed a compact body. The geometric parameters of the structural components of the flows were determined.

Keywords: compound vortex, mass transfer, impurity.

UDC: 551.46

Received: 05.05.2012
Revised: 16.10.2012

 English version: Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 2013, 54:3, 408–414

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