Multiphase Flow and Fluidization Continuum and Kinetic Theory Descriptions

As a reference tool for engineers and as an advanced level text for graduate students, Multiphase Flow and Fluidization takes the reader beyond the theoretical to show how multiphase flow equations provide practical solutions to industrial fluidization problems. Written to advance progress in the emerging science of multiphase flow, this book begins with the development of basic conservation laws and moves on through kinetic theory. It clarifies many physical concepts (such as particulate viscosity and solids pressure) and introduces the new dependent variable--the volume fraction of the dispersed phase. Exercises are provided for further study, and lead into applications not covered in the text itself. This book is the first to apply kinetic theory to flow particulates. It treats fluidization as a branch of transport phenomena and shows how to do transient, multidimantional simulation of multiphase processes. There is much new material here, from such theoretical matters as well-posedness and numerical stability of multiphase equations, to such practical ones as the origin of bubbles and the concept of critical granular flow.Gidaspow, Dimitri is the author of 'Multiphase Flow and Fluidization Continuum and Kinetic Theory Descriptions' with ISBN 9780122824708 and ISBN 0122824709.