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VM527 – Multiphase Flow
Instructors:
Credits: 3 credits
Pre-requisites: Vm320, Vm335, or permission from instructor
Description:
Multiphase flows play a crucial role in many engineering disciplines and applications,
including spray and atomization, solid particle-laden flows, liquid droplet-laden flows,
as encountered in engine combustion, pharmaceutical nebulizer, agricultural
spraying, spray coating, etc. This course introduces the state-of-the-art modeling
and experimental methods for a range of multiphase flow and particle technologyrelated topics such as sprays, aerosols, droplet dynamics (drop-fluid interaction,
drop-drop interaction, drop-wall interaction). Both Eulerian and Lagrangian models
for dispersed multiphase flows, as well as a wide range of phase-interface tracking
models with consideration of both heat and mass transfer will be considered. In
addition, experimental methods using laser and optical diagnostics, including phase
Doppler interferometry and high speed imaging, on multiphase flow measurements
will be emphasized.
Course Topics:
Droplet dynamics
Modeling of multiphase flow
Numerical methods in fluid flow
Heat transfer in multiphase flow
Cavitation
Atomization and sprays
Experimental methods in multiphase flow
Multiphase flow applications