Computational transport phenomena for engineering analyses

✍ Scribed by Farmer, Richard C

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 548
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the dramatic advancement of computer technology, students in chemical engineering must have a firm understanding of complex transport phenomena analysis. This graduate-level book focuses on the current concepts of fluid mechanics, turbulent flow, and multiphase flow.

Abstract:

Focuses on the concepts of fluid mechanics, turbulent flow and multiphase flow. This work stresses a problem-solving approach that incorporates a reliance on the Computational Fluid Dymanics Code (CFD). Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Transport phenomena --
Analyzing transport phenomena --
A computational tool : the CTP code --
Verification, validation, and generalization --
The equations of change --
Derivation of the continuity equation --
Derivation of the species continuity equation --
Derivation of the equation of motion --
Derivation of the general energy equation --
Non-Newtonian fluids --
General property balance --
Analytical and approximate solutions for the equations of change --
Physical properties --
Real-fluid thermodynamics --
Chemical equilibrium and reaction kinetics --
Molecular transport properties --
Thermal radiation properties --
Turbulence modeling concepts --
Reynolds averaging and eddy viscosity models --
Turbulence characteristics --
Reynolds and Favre averaging --
Eddy viscosity models --
Other turbulence models --
More comprehensive turbulence models --
Differential second-moment closure methods --
Probability density function models --
Direct numerical simulation --
Large eddy simulation --
Laminar-to-turbulent transition models --
Computational coordinates and conservation laws --
Numerical methods for solving governing equations --
Density-based and pressure-based methods --
Numerical methods --
Grid topologies --
Space-time conservation-element/solution-element methods --
The CTP code --
Grids --
Discretized conservation equations --
Upwind and dissipation schemes --
Solution strategy --
Time-marching scheme --
Boundary conditions --
Initial conditions --
CPT code features --
User's guide --
Multiphase phenomena --
Scope --
Dilute suspensions --
Interphase mass transfer --
Multiphase effects included in the CTP code --
Population balance models --
Dense particulate flows.

✦ Subjects

Fluid mechanics -- Data processing. Transport theory -- Mathematics.