Multiphase Flow and Fluidization: Continuum and Kinetic Theory Descriptions / Edition 1

by Dimitri Gidaspow

Overview

Useful as a reference for engineers in industry and as an advanced level text for graduate engineering students, Multiphase Flow and Fluidization takes the reader beyond the theoretical to demonstrate how multiphase flow equations can be used to provide applied, practical, predictive solutions to industrial fluidization problems. Written to help advance progress in the emerging science of multiphase flow, this book begins with the development of the conservation laws and moves on through kinetic theory, clarifying many physical concepts (such as particulate viscosity and solids pressure) and introducing the new dependent variable—the volume fraction of the dispersed phase. Exercises at the end of each chapterare provided for further study and lead into applications not covered in the text itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780122824708
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/18/1994
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Transport Equations. One-Dimensional Steady Gas—Solid Flow. Drift Flux. Critical Granular Flow. The Fluidized State. On the Origin of Bubbles. Inviscid Multiphase Flows: Bubbling Beds. Viscous Flow and Circulating Fluidized Beds. Kinetic Theory Approach. Applications of Kinetic Theory. Kinetic Theory of Granular Mixtures. Sedimentation and Consolidation. Appendices: Formulation of Continuum Problems: Introduction. Appendices: The Method of Characteristics: Introduction

Editorial Reviews

"Overall, I recommend this book to people who are serious about fundamental modeling of multiphase flows. It is representative of the latest efforts in this field; namely it is the first to focus on the kinetic theory as applied to multiphase systems involving particles." —POWDER TECHNOLOGY

From the Publisher

Multiphase flow occurs in many operations in the chemical, petroleum, and power generation industries. This advanced text, for use in transport phenomena and fluidization courses as well as by industrial researchers, is based on the author's AIChE Kern award lecture published in Applied Mechanics Reviews in 1986. The kinetic theory approach, which is only ten years old and has not previously appeared in any book on multiphase flow or fluidization, clarifies many physical concepts, such as particulate viscosity and solids pressure. Includes exercises at the end of each chapter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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