Fundamentals of Dispersed Multiphase Flows
Fundamentals of Dispersed Multiphase Flows
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inc GSTDispersed multiphase flows are at the heart of many geophysical, environmental, industrial, and energy applications. Volcanic eruptions, rain formation, powder snow avalanches, sediment transport, and dust storms are some classic examples from the environment, while industrial applications include fluidized beds, slurry transport, fuel injection, cyclone separators, and plasma coating, to name a few. Although each application is unique, they share significant commonalities in the underlying dispersed multiphase-flow physics that govern their dynamics. This book takes a rigorous approach to explaining the complex interconnected physical processes that are at play, before developing different classes of mathematical models and numerical techniques that are appropriate for different regimes of dispersed multiphase flows. Containing many examples and over 100 exercises, it is suitable for use as a graduate-level textbook as well as a reference for researchers who want to model and simulate a multiphase flow phenomenon in their application.
- Approaches dispersed multiphase flow from a rigorous physical perspective, enabling beginning graduate students to quickly understand the must-learn material
- Contains many examples and over 100 exercises: highly suitable for use as a textbook or for self-study
- Accompanied by more than sixty-five lecture videos by the author, covering all the chapters in the book
- Starts from the fundamentals, but takes the reader to the state of the art, including new physical insight never presented before
- Follows a coherent thread starting from the physics of an individual particle, to distributions of them and to large-scale multiphase flow
- Author is a well-known expert in dispersed multiphase flow with over 35 years of experience
- Accessible to budding researchers in various branches of engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical, and Environmental) and Science (Geophysics, Coastal/Ocean, Atmospheric, Astrophysics, and Volcanology)
Reviews & endorsements
'Many will be grateful to the author for having collected and beautifully organized in this book a vast amount of material scattered throughout the literature. Students as well as practitioners will benefit from the clear perspective and complete coverage provided in these pages. In rare occasions a book defines a discipline - this may well be the case with Prof. Balachandar's work.' Andrea Prosperetti, University of Houston
'This encyclopedic treatise on multiphase flows ranges from particle-laden fluid flows to grain flows. The presentation of fluid dynamics, solid dynamics and thermodynamics is both rigorous and engaging. The treatment ranges from theory to high-fidelity numerical modeling. It will surely find a home on the hard drive of countless researchers.' Gary Parker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
'Multiphase flows are ubiquitous and in the last 30 years we have assisted to an enormous leap in their modelling and computations. This is a carefully and purposefully written book by a world leader, it is written following a scientific approach and is an excellent enabling guide from the fundamentals to the applications. I highly recommend it to graduate students and to experts in the area.' Alfredo Soldati, TU Wien, Austria
Product details
March 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009184540
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Scales, mechanisms, and parameters
- 3. Description of the dispersed phase
- 4. Isolated rigid particle in an unbounded ambient flow
- 5. Lift force and torque in unbounded ambient flows
- 6. Heat and mass transfer from an isolated sphere
- 7. Particle–turbulence interaction in the dilute limit
- 8. Particle–wall hydrodynamic interactions
- 9. Particle–particle interactions
- 10. Collisions, coagulation, and breakup
- 11. Filtered multiphase flow equations
- 12. Equilibrium particle fields
- 13. Multiphase flow approaches
- 14. Particle-resolved simulations
- 15. Euler–Lagrange approach
- 16. Euler–Euler approach
- A. Index notation
- B. Vector calculus
- C. Added dissipation of an isolated particle
- D. Solution of the Helmholtz equation
- E. Derivation of the perturbation force of the BBO equation
- F. Derivation of MRG equation with reciprocal theorem
- References
- Index.
