MixSim®: Flow Modeling for Mixing Vessels
MixSim® is a comprehensive analysis tool for complete hydrodynamic simulation of agitated mixing vessels. With an easy-to-use interface, customized with mixing language, users can rapidly create a computer model of many agitated vessels and predict the relevant mixing characteristics. MixSim is used to design, troubleshoot, characterize, verify and help to scale-up agitated mixing tanks and reactors virtually, saving process engineer and equipment designers time and money in physical prototyping.
MixSim’s intelligent geometry and meshing algorithms, combined with a mixing specific graphical presentation of results, enable users to set up CFD simulations of complex mixing tanks in a matter of minutes. MixSim’s coupling to libraries of brand name and generic impeller types and its connection to the unparalleled breadth of physical and chemical models in the FLUENT solver make it the most powerful flow modeling software available for stirred tank mixing applications.
Product Features
MixSim is designed to bring to engineers a power tool through its easy to use and intuitive interface at no or minimal learning curve. As an application specific tool, it is optimized to help set up complex mixing tanks simulations from geometry description, meshing and solution set up in matter of few minutes. Therefore, it has the flexibility to set up many tank bottom shapes, impeller types, heating coils and plates, baffle shapes without the need to go through any CAD or manual geometry creation steps.
The various steps required to perform a simulation of the mixing vessel are integrated so the users can easily use the software. The steps required to perform a mixing simulation are familiar to the typical process engineer, thereby eliminating the need to be a CAD package expert. In addition, MixSim GUI accesses many proven and well established features of FLUENT computational fluid dynamic solvers, reducing the need to learn a full function CFD program. Examples include access to various turbulence modeling features, non-Newtonian viscosity models such as power law and Carreau. All of the tools typically needed in a general purpose CFD package including simulation procedure and solver controls needed for a complete modeling solution have been tied together in a single user-friendly environment. The user has access to accurate physical models, as well as automatic preprocessing and powerful graphical visualization tools.
Simulation Examples
- MixSim is used for a wide variety of applications from single and multi-impeller hydrodynamics in batch and continuous systems to gas dispersion, from liquid-phase reaction to solids suspension, from fermentation reactors to water treatment applications.
- Simulation Examples
Customer Testimonial
"The fluid mechanics group of the R&D department of BASF in Germany has been using FLUENT for many years for the simulation fo fluid flow and related phenomena in all kinds of chemical process equipment. Recently, the software installation was augmented by MixSim 2.0. Using MixSim, we can do the geometry setup, meshing, and FLUENT simulation setup for stirred tank configurations in minutes. The flexible CAD import option allows us to use virtually any impeller geometry, and MixSim's open structure allows us to extend its capabilities, all within the same easy-to-use environment."