Tracing Particles Through a Laminar Static Mixer

This section takes you through the modeling stages of computing particle trajectories based on a computed fluid velocity field. In static mixers, also called motionless or in-line mixers, a fluid is pumped through a pipe containing stationary blades. This mixing technique is particularly well suited for laminar flow mixing because it generates only small pressure losses in this flow regime. This example studies the flow in a twisted-blade static mixer. It evaluates the mixing performance by calculating the trajectory of suspended particles and displaying their positions at several cross sections of the mixing blades.