INNER FLOW FIELD OF POOL MIXED BY THREE SUBMERSIBLE MIXERS
To study the agitating effect of submersible mixers in a square sewage treatment pool, the three-dimensional modeling Pro/E software was adopted to establish the physical model. The large-scale computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT6.3 was used, and the large-scale software ICEM was selected to build an unstructured tetrahedron grid of the sewage treatment pool. Next, the sewage treatment pool was numerically simulated by RNG k-ε turbulent model and move coordinate system technology. The macrofluid field and the flow field distribution of each section were analyzed to observe the efficiency of each submersible mixer. The average velocity of the fluid and the stirring volume were studied simultaneously. Results show that, under the action of three mixers, fluid of the sewage pool forms a continuous circulating water flow. The fluid is mixed adequately. The average velocity of fluid in the pool is at around 0.3 m/s, and the fluid mixing area in the pool is more than 90%, which is in agreement with the working requirements. Consequently, it can provide a reference basis for the practical engineering application of submersible mixers by using this method.