Experimental study of flow in a tank stirred by a Rushton impeller

The paper presents results of an experimental investigation of flow in a stirred vessel. By means of LDA the velocity field was measured in a vicinity of a Rushton type impeller placed in the middle of the tank. Profiles of mean velocities of radial, tangential and axial components were obtained. The profiles of radial and tangential velocity components in the impeller discharge stream were approximated by a modified Gaussian distribution.