Static mixers are widely used for fluid blending operations but few independent data regarding their performance in the turbulent regime are available in the open literature.
Based on the story of the Collyer brothers, two Manhattan recluses who died in 1947 in an upper Fifth Avenue brownstone stuffed to the gills with newspapers, artifacts and other detritus (even a Model T Ford), it is of a piece with works like "Ragtime" or "Billy Bathgate" in its fluid blending of fact and fiction, although here the lines are more difficult to parse.
When Mr. Burdett takes the reader to a red-light district during daylight hours, we trust that a bar might really smell like "pine-cleaning fluid blended with stale beer, cigarettes and cheap perfume".
Opposite flanks of the park illustrate well this fluid blend of continuity and change.
It also gets from Rufus Norris a breathtakingly fine production that achieves pure theatrical poetry in its fluid blend of song and speech.
Faeries casts a spell because its fusion of people and puppets deftly parallels the fluid blend of real and make-believe in a child's imagination.
Mr. Bagby's flexible baritone and idiosyncratic vocal style — a fluid blend of declamation and singing — suited the sermonlike spirit of these works.
Ms. Killebrew, an actress and playwright from Mississippi, is fluent in Southern idioms (her autobiographical "The Play About My Dad" from 2011 addressed Hurricane Katrina) and seems right at home here, her Julie a fluid blend of wistfulness, ardor and caution.
The depressing drawback to Whitehead's compelling, fluid blend of historical and speculative fiction, and his brilliant collapsing-together of time and place, might just be that so many readers today have been taught too little about America's true, unvarnished history of slavery to easily spot how much gruesome truth the novel holds up, unflinchingly, to the light.
In "Voices of Angels" (Delos DE 3219), by the Voices of Ascension led by Dennis Keene, 12 women, variously deployed, give stately but fluid, solidly blended and expressive performances of 14 Hildegard chants.
Numerical analysis demonstrated that a CGM provided intense transverse components in the field and great mixing efficiency; in particular, CGM-2 with co-rotating flows encompassing the mechanisms of cutting and blending of fluids had a mixing performance over 50% better than an SGM for Re="1 100.
