Editors: Ricardo Dias, Rui Lima, Antonio A. Martins, Teresa M. Mata

Single and Two-Phase Flows on Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

eBook: US $49 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $287
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ISBN: 978-1-60805-504-3 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-295-0 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2012
DOI: 10.2174/97816080529501120101

Introduction

Single and two-phase flows are ubiquitous in most natural process and engineering systems. Examples of systems or process include, packed bed reactors, either single phase or multiphase, absorber and adsorber separation columns, filter beds, plate heat exchangers, flow of viscoelastic fluids in polymer systems, or the enhanced recovery of oil, among others.

In each case the flow plays a central role in determining the system or process behavior and performance. A better understanding of the underlying physical phenomena and the ability to describe the phenomena properly are both crucial to improving design, operation and control processes involving the flow of fluids, ensuring that they will be more efficient and cost effective. Expanding disciplines such as microfluidics and the simulation of complex flow physical systems, such as blood flow in physiological networks, also rely heavily on accurate predictions of fluid flow.

Recent advances either in computational and experimental techniques are improving the existing knowledge of single and multiphase flows in engineering and physical systems of interest. This ebook is a review on the state-of-the-art and recent advances in critical areas of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena with respect to chemical and biomedical engineering applications.

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Foreword

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Vishwas V. Wadekar
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Preface

- Pp. ii
Ricardo Dias
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List of Contributors

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Acknowledgements

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Spacims-Probing the Internal Behaviour of 3D Structured Materials

- Pp. 3-25 (23)
Jacinto Sá, Cristina-Elena Stere, Alexandre Goguet
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Modelling of a Monolithic Reverse Flow Reactor for Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by Ammonia

- Pp. 26-51 (26)
Emilio Muñoz, David Lesser, Pablo Marín, Salvador Ordóñez, Fernando V. Díez
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Mesoscopic Simulation of Rarefied Gas Flow in Porous Media

- Pp. 52-78 (27)
Alexandros N. Kalarakis, Eugene D. Skouras, Vasilis N. Burganos
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Mixing Through Half a Century of Chemical Engineering

- Pp. 79-112 (34)
Ricardo J. Santos, Madalena M. Dias, José Carlos B. Lopes
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Application of the Probability Density Function Method to Turbulent Mixing with Chemical Reaction

- Pp. 113-152 (40)
Andrei Chorny
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Activated Sludge Models Coupled to CFD Simulations

- Pp. 153-173 (21)
Pereira J.P., Karpinska A., Gomes P.J., Martins A.A., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.
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Using CFD to Estimate External Mass Transfer Coefficients and Intra-Particle Diffusional Effects on the Supercritical Hydrogenation of Sunflower Oil

- Pp. 174-195 (22)
A. Guardo, E. Ramírez, M.A. Larrayoz, F. Recasens
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Mass Transfer Around a Single Soluble Solid with Different Shapes Buried in a Packed Bed and Exposed to Fluid Flow

- Pp. 196-232 (37)
J.M.P.Q. Delgado
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Advances on Viscoelastic Fluid Flow Simulation

- Pp. 233-265 (33)
Jovani L. Favero, Argimiro R. Secchi, Nilo S.M. Cardozo, Hrvoje Jasak
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Tree-Shaped Flow Structures Viewed from the Constructal Theory Perspective

- Pp. 266-291 (26)
António F. Miguel
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Determination of Effective Transport Properties of Metallic Foams: Morphology and Flow Laws

- Pp. 292-331 (40)
J. Vicente, E. Brun, J.M. Hugo, J.P. Bonnet, F. Topin
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Flow Visualization in Gas-Solid Packed Beds by Spatially Resolved Near-Infrared Imaging

- Pp. 332-360 (29)
Aiouache Farid, Nic An tSaoir Méabh, Luis Abreu Fernandes Daniel
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Interfacial Area Modelling in Two-Phase Flow Studies

- Pp. 361-385 (25)
Christophe Morel
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Mass Transfer Models for Oxygen-Water Co-Current Flow in Vertical Bubble Columns

- Pp. 386-411 (26)
Valdemar Garcia, João Sobrinho Teixeira
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Characterization of Turbulence and Flow Regimes in Bubble Columns Based on Nonlinear Chaos Analysis of Various Data

- Pp. 412-439 (28)
Stoyan Nedeltchev
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Characterization and Modeling of Flotation Processes

- Pp. 440-459 (20)
G.G. Kagramanov, V.A. Kolesnikov
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Pulse Wave Propagation in Large Blood Vessels Based on Fluid- Solid Interactions Methods

- Pp. 460-471 (12)
Tomohiro Fukui, Kim H. Parker, Takami Yamaguchi
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An-Harmonic Modeling of the Peripheral Distortion of the Arterial Pulse

- Pp. 472-488 (17)
Panagiotes A. Voltairas, D.I. Fotiadis, A. Charalambopoulos, L.K Michalis
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Numerical Analysis of Blood Flow in Stenosed Channels

- Pp. 489-512 (24)
Stéphanie Ferreira, Ricardo P. Dias, Carlos Balsa, Carla S. Fernandes
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Blood Flow Behavior in Microchannels: Past, Current and Future Trends

- Pp. 513-547 (35)
R. Lima, T. Ishikawa, Y. Imai, T. Yamaguchi
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A Survey of Microchannel Geometries for Mixing of Species in Biomicrofluidics

- Pp. 548-578 (31)
Francesco Pennella, Francesco Mastrangelo, Diego Gallo, Diana Massai, Marco A. Deriu, Giuseppe Falvo D'Urso Labate, Cristina Bignardi, Franco Montevecchi, Umberto Morbiducci
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Endothelial Cell Responses to Fluid Shear Stress: From Methodology to Applications

- Pp. 579-599 (21)
Toshiro Ohashi, Masaaki Sato
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Micro-Flow Visualization of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

- Pp. 600-612 (13)
R. Lima, R.J. Joseyphus, T. Ishikawa, Y. Imai, T. Yamaguchi
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A Computational Study on the Possibility of the Initialization and Development of Intracranial Aneurysms Considering Biofluid and Biosolid Mechanics

- Pp. 613-633 (21)
Yixiang Feng, Shigeo Wada, Takami Yamaguchi
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Index

- Pp. 634-647 (14)
Ricardo Dias, Antonio A. Martins, Rui Lima, Teresa M. Mata
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