TY - JOUR N2 - This study is concerned with liquid flow induced by a disk which rotates steadily around its axis and touches the free surface of liquid contained in a cylindrical vessel. It is a simplified model of the flow in the inlet part of a vertical cooling crystallizer where a rotary distributor of inflowing solution is situated above the free surface of solution contained in the crystalliser. Numerical simulations of flow phenomena were conducted and the simulation results were interpreted assuming an analogy with Kármán’s theoretical equations. In a cylindrical coordinate system, the components of flow velocity were identified as functions of distance from the surface of the rotating disk. The experimental setup was developed to measure velocity fields, using digital particle velocimetry and optical flow. Conclusions concerning the influence of disc rotation on liquid velocity fields were presented and the experimental results were found to confirm the results of numerical simulation. On the basis of simulation data, an approximation function was determined to describe the relationship between the circumferential component of flow velocity and the distance from the disk. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/84915/PDF/01-paper-Suchecki.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/84915 PY - 2014 IS - No 1 March EP - 18 DO - 10.2478/cpe-2014-0001 KW - liquid flow KW - rotating disk KW - von Kármán’s equations KW - velocity field KW - digital particle image velocimetry A1 - Suchecki, Witold PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Chemical and Process Engineering DA - 2014 T1 - Analysis of the Liquid Flow in a Vessel with a Rotating Disk at the Liquid Surface SP - 3 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/84915 T2 - Chemical and Process Engineering ER -