Fundamentals of Dispersed Multiphase Flows

Dispersed 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)