Dominique Della Valle

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of recent conceptual and technological innovations in passive static mixers and continuous in-line reactors and discuss current industrial applications from a process intensification perspective, focusing on mixing and mass transfer performance.

TL;DR: In this work a fluid–structure interaction solver is developed in a partitioned approach using block Gauss–Seidel implicit scheme and detects accurately the interaction between the complex flow structures generated by the flaps and the effect of the flapping oscillations between each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of longitudinal and transverse vortices on the heat and mass transfer mechanisms generated by rows of trapezoidal vortex generators were investigated, and a global performance analysis of the high-efficiency vortex (HEV) heat exchanger designed to exploit these embedded vortexices, showed that the HEV is very competitive with other multifunctional heat exchangers/reactors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used chaotic advection in a twisted-pipe flow to investigate the efficiency of this flow in the liquid/liquid dispersion process, and they found that the resulting dispersions are finer and more mono-dispersed in the chaotic-advection flow.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of vortex generators on heat transfer in turbulent vortical flows is investigated by three different physical approaches, and it is shown that the reversed geometry presents the best heat transfer coefficient and the best energetic efficiency.