Fundamentals of Dispersed Multiphase Flows

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'.

'Many will be grateful to the author for having collected and beautifully organized in this book a vast amount of material scattered throughout the literature. Students as well as practitioners will benefit from the clear perspective and complete coverage provided in these pages. In rare occasions a book defines a discipline - this may well be the case with Prof. Balachandar's work.' Andrea Prosperetti, University of Houston

• 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.