A mixer design for the pigtail braid

The stirring of a body of viscous fluid using multiple stirring rods is known to be particularly effective when the rods trace out a path corresponding to a nontrivial mathematical braid. The optimal braid is the so-called "pigtail braid", in which three stirring rods execute the usu...

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Main Authors: Binder, B. J., Cox, Stephen M.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/668/