The study of fluids presenting residual stress has two basic difficulties: the construction of adequate constitutive models to have feasible mathematical treatment, and the development of approximation methods is suitable to deal with the existing nonlinear effects. In this paper, the characterization of hydrodynamic fields of incompressible yield stress fluid with regularization model of Bercovier and Engelman [1] in a rotating cylindrical vessel equipped with anchor stirrer was undertaken using Fluent CFD 6.2.13.

CFD modeling, stirred vessel, anchor impeller, laminar flow, yield stress, FVM.