Founded by chemical engineering mixing expert, Professor Richard V. Calabrese, the program is an outgrowth of a grant from The Proctor & Gamble University Exploratory Research Program. The goal of the High-Shear Mixing Research Program is to better understand the underlying fluid complexities in rotor-stator mixers and its affect on process performance for production of various foods, pharmaceuticals, and health and beauty products, as well as paints, inks dyes and other commodities.

“The research program that Professor Richard Calabrese has put together will truly improve upon a process that affects our daily lives. It is an honor to have been chosen as the CFD visualization company that will assist in the continuing analysis of high-shear mixing,” said Bill Panepinto, General Manager of ACUITIV Software. “This selection further demonstrates the business benefits our next-generation software architecture provides to industries, such as chemical manufacturing, by offering a level of graphical detail and analysis capabilities only ACUITIV Software can provide. Furthermore, high-shear mixers produce complex flow fields and therefore serve as an excellent test bed to demonstrate current capabilities and develop new visual techniques that will be applicable to a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive and power generation.”