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Single or two-phase flows are ubiquitous in most natural process and engineering
systems. Examples of systems or process include packed bed reactors, either
single phase or multiphase, absorber and adsorber separation columns, filter beds,
plate heat exchangers, flow of viscoelastic fluids in polymer systems, or the
enhanced recovery of oil, among others.
In each case the flow plays a central role in determining the system or process
behaviour and performance. A better understanding of the underlying physical
phenomena and the ability to describe is crucial to design, operate and control
processes involving the flow of fluids, ensuring that they will be more efficient
and cost effective.
Growing areas such as microfluidics, nanomedicine and the modelling and simulation
of complex flow in living systems such as the blood flow in microvascular networks
rely upon a good description of the flow. One way of studying the blood flow
behavior is in the context of blood flow in large arteries, and another is in small
vessels. In the former case, blood may be treated as a homogenous fluid and
Newtonian constitutive equations are generally accepted as a good approximation to
express the rheological property of blood. In small vessels, however, the scale of
generated flow field sometimes becomes comparable to the scale of a blood cell. The
chapters from the area of biomedical engineering will describe several physiological
and pathological events that happen in both large and small vessels.
Recent advances either in computational and experimental techniques are
improving the existing knowledge of single and multiphase flows in engineering
and physical systems of interest. This book reviews the state of the art and recent
advances in various key areas of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena in the
fields of chemical and biomedical engineering.
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Single flows Two-phase flows Chemical engineering Biomedical engineering
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Dias, Ricardo; Lima, R.; Martins, Antonio; Mata, Teresa (eds.) (2012). Single and two-phase flows on chemical and biomedical engineering. p. 1-634. ISBN 978-1-60805-504-3