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"Dispersed multiphase flows are frequently found in nature and have diverse geophysical, environmental, industrial, and energy applications. This book targets a beginning graduate student looking to learn about the physical processes that govern these flows, going from the fundamentals to the state of the art, with many exercises included"--
List 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.
About the author
S. Balachandar is Newton C. Ebaugh Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received the Thermal Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal Fluids Engineers, the Gad Hetsroni Senior Researcher Award from the International Conference on Multiphase Flow, the Freeman Scholar Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Francois Naftali Frenkiel Award from the American Physical Society. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the 'International Journal of Multiphase Flow'.
Summary
Dispersed multiphase flows are frequently found in nature and have diverse geophysical, environmental, industrial, and energy applications. This book targets a beginning graduate student looking to learn about the physical processes that govern these flows, going from the fundamentals to the state of the art, with many exercises included.
