Critical Regimes of Two-Phase Flows with a Polydisperse Solid Phase

✍ Scribed by Eugene Barsky (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications 93
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings to light peculiarities of the formation of critical regimes of two-phase flows with a polydisperse solid phase. A definition of entropy is formulated on the basis of statistical analysis of these peculiarities. The physical meaning of entropy and its correlation with other parameters determining two-phase flows are clearly defined. The interrelations and main differences between this entropy and the thermodynamic one are revealed. The main regularities of two-phase flows both in critical and in other regimes are established using the notion of entropy. This parameter serves as a basis for a deeper insight into the physics of the process and for the development of exhaustive techniques of mass exchange estimation in such flows.

The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students of engineering studying two-phase flows, and to scientists and engineers engaged in specific problems of such fields as chemical technology, mineral dressing, modern ceramics, microelectronics, pharmacology, power engineering, thermal engineering, etc. using flows with solid particles in their respective production methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
General Ideas of Mass Transfer Processes in Critical Regimes....Pages 1-17
Principles of Modeling Processes in Moving Media....Pages 19-31
System of Particles of the Same Size Class in a Critical Flow....Pages 33-57
System of Particles of Several Size Classes....Pages 59-91
Principal Statistical Relations of Mass Transfer in Critical Flow....Pages 93-105
Correlation Between the Apparatus and the Cell....Pages 107-124
Structural Model of Mass Transfer in Critical Regimes of Two-Phase Flows....Pages 125-152
Correlation Between Statistical and Empirical Results....Pages 153-168
Entropy of Composition: Optimization Criterion....Pages 169-195
Stability and Kinetic Aspects of Mass Distribution in Critical Regimes....Pages 197-214
Critical Regimes of Two-Phase Flows in Complicated Systems....Pages 215-264
Stochastic Model of Critical Regimes of Two-Phase Flows....Pages 265-286
Mass Transfer in Critical Regimes of Two-Phase Flows....Pages 287-331
Universal Curves Criteria....Pages 333-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-348

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Optimization