Flow in a Taylor–Couette Reactor with Ribbed Rotors

This paper investigates the flow structure and pattern transition within a conical ribbed Taylor–Couette reactor (TCR), which is 4 mm in gap width 200 height, via particle image velocimetry (PIV) numerical simulation methods. The effect of various parameters on vortex transition, including structural ribs (rib spacing rib width) operating (Taylor number axial Reynolds number), were investigated. Without flow, TCR can control while maintaining symmetry field. Under certain conditions, Taylor pair form between ribs, with down rotating clockwise up counterclockwise. dimension be controlled by adjusting spacing, summarized into four different conditions according to size spacing. With greatly impacts TCR, as increases, appears compressed stretched. double eventually transformed single vortex. critical for defined correlated results show that positively proportional inversely empirical correlation equation developed this study shows strong predictive power validated using experimental results. Overall, provides comprehensive understanding lays foundation further optimization design.