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Quantifying Mixing using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Published on: January 25, 2012
Abundant chaos in a mixer model with a hysteretic iron core inductance
M Aminou1, U Simo Domguia2,3, S A Oumarou1
1Carnot Energy Laboratory (LEC), Faculty of Sciences, University of Bangui, Box 908, Bangui, Central African Republic.
Abstract:
Industrial mixers are equipment used in food, drug, chemical and semiconductor industries. Chaotic mixing has been proposed to improve the degree of homogeneity and reduce the energy consumption. This paper deals with dynamical studies of a mixer model with complex rotational movements. The complexity is generated by an inductance with hysteretic characteristics. Mathematical methods and numerical simulations are used to display the different dynamical states which are period-nT, pulse, bursting and chaotic signals. Good agreement is found between the mathematical and numerical results. In general, it is found that chaos is highly abundant in the model.
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