ChE I8100 Fluid Particle Systems
Course covers equilibrium and flow properties of mixtures containing solid particles in viscous fluids, providing an overview of basic analytical, theoretical and modeling concepts, with an introduction to certain simulational and experimental methods. Recent scientific understanding in the field is reviewed. Topics include: general conservation laws and constitutive descriptions for continuous materials; microhydrodynamics, i.e. flow and interaction at the particle scale; mixing, diffusion and dispersion; two-phase mixture conservation equations, their general features, consequences and solution methods; statistical mechanical approaches applied to low-Reynolds-number suspensions: microstructure, rheology and bulk flow; inertial effects including weak inertia, inertial particle hydrodynamics, turbulence in mixture flows; experimental and simulational tools; mixture flow applications in industry.
Contact Hours
3 hr./wk.