Reply to Comments on 'CFD simulation and PIV measurement of the flow field generated by modified pitched blade turbine impellers' by Ge et al. [Chem. Eng. Res. Des. (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2013.08.024]

摘要

The comments made by Ivan Fort (2014) are a most welcome addition to our work (Ge et al., 2013). He offered a critical analysis of the integral characteristics of the stirred system we investigated. The impeller power number Np was calculated from the volume integration of turbulence energy dissipation rate, e, predicted from the CFD model. Fort compared our CFD simulation results with the values of N_p calculated from the power regression of the experimental data (Medek, 1980; Beshay et al, 2001).