Fluid Mechanics at Interfaces 1: Methods and Diversity
About this ebook
Chapter 1 examines the questions raised by modeling interfaces in the presence of one or more fluid phases. Chapter 2 discusses the action of turbulence in liquid–vapor flows that contain both small, dispersed bubbles as well as large bubbles, with heat exchanges at the interfaces. In addition, a new model is presented, using large eddy simulation (LES). Chapter 3 studies an original method for calculating the drag force and thermal transfers in flows around networks of spherical particles, while Chapter 4 focuses on the relationships between interfaces and critical fluids.
Chapter 5 examines shearing, which causes anomalies in the Brownian motion of particles in strongly fluctuating near-critical mixtures, and Chapter 6 introduces basic concepts related to combustion interfaces, raising the question of the combustion of solids, before ending with a brief presentation of the Rankine–Hugoniot theory and a historical overview of the research carried out in the field of combustion.
About the author
Roger Prud'homme is the Emeritus Research Director at CNRS, France. His most recent research topics have included flames, two-phase flows and the modeling of fluid interfaces.
Stéphane Vincent is Professor at the Gustave Eiffel University, France. He leads the Heat and Mass Transfer team of the MSME laboratory. His research focuses on models and numerical methods for multiphase flows.
