Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, Engineering and the Environment

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Applications to Weather Forecast and Climate Change....Pages 3-36
Turbulent Diffusion of Heat at High Rayleigh Numbers....Pages 37-45
Numerical Simulation of Sliding Drops on an Inclined Solid Surface....Pages 47-69
Fluids in Cosmology....Pages 71-105
Fluid Mechanics and Systems Biology for Understanding the Cosmic Distribution of Life: A Review....Pages 107-120
The Impact of Computational Fluid Mechanics on Cancer Research....Pages 121-139
Growth of Bubbles in Reservoirs and its Consequences on the Foam Formation....Pages 141-164
Theoretical Physics of Granular Fluids and Solids....Pages 165-191
Shock Structure and Acoustic Waves in a Supersonic Jet....Pages 193-210
Complex Fluids, Soft Matter and the Jamming Transition Problem....Pages 211-233
A Multiphase Approach to Model Blood Flow in Micro-tubes....Pages 235-247
Perspective: The Breakup of Liquid Jets and the Formation of Droplets....Pages 249-257
Experimental Investigation of Thermal Diffusion in Binary Fluid Mixtures....Pages 259-270
Stellar Mass Accretion Rates from Fragmentation of a Rotating Core....Pages 271-288
Biocompatible Treatment of Extra Heavy Oil Produced in Venezuela....Pages 289-296
Dynamical Behaviour of As(V) and Se(IV) Adsorption in Biofilters: Analysis of Dimensions, Flux and Removal Percentage....Pages 297-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
The Geometry of Drop-Formed Vortex Rings....Pages 307-314
Hydrodynamics of Multiple Coalescence Collisions of Liquid Drops: From the Modelling of the Coalescence Phenomenon to Flocculation of Drops in 3D Using the SPH Formalism....Pages 315-323
A Three-Dimensional SPH Approach for Modelling the Collision Process Between Liquid Drops: The Formation of Clusters of Unequal-Sized Drops....Pages 325-334
Numerical Simulations of Freely Oscillating Drops....Pages 335-343
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Brownian Dynamics Simulation by Reticular Mapping Matrix Method....Pages 345-356
Faraday Wave Patterns on a Triangular Cell Network....Pages 357-365
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Gas-Liquid-Solid Volumetric Phase Distribution Estimation in a Cold Slurry Bubble Column System for Hydro-Conversion Processes....Pages 369-378
Feasibility of Slug Flow Simulation Using the Commercial Code CFX....Pages 379-387
Heavy Oil Transportation as a Solid-Liquid Dispersion....Pages 389-396
Comprehensive Evaluation of Gas-Liquid Cyclonic Separation Technologies....Pages 397-408
Geometric Design Optimization of a Prototype Axial Gas-Liquid Cyclonic Separator....Pages 409-422
Effect of Hydrotreating Reaction Conditions on Viscosity, API Gravity and Specific Gravity of Maya Crude Oil....Pages 423-430
Mechanistic Model for Eccentric Annular Gas-Liquid Flow in Horizontal Pipelines....Pages 431-441
Scaling Properties in the Adsorption of Ionic Polymeric Surfactants on Generic Nanoparticles of Metallic Oxides by Mesoscopic Simulation....Pages 443-452
Front Matter....Pages 453-459
On the Construction of a Continuous Theory for Granular Flows....Pages 461-461
Integral Representation for Continuous Matter Fields in Granular Dynamics....Pages 463-471
Numerical SPH Calculations of Fluid Flow Through Saturated and Non-saturated Porous Media....Pages 473-480
Front Matter....Pages 481-496
Propagation of Longitudinal Waves in Super-Radially Expanding Solar Plumes....Pages 497-497
Comparing Accretion Centres Between Rotating and Turbulent Cloud Cores....Pages 499-507
Statistical Methods for the Detection of Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei Using X-Ray Spectral Lines....Pages 509-520
Reproducing the X-Ray Soft Step @ 0.9 keV Observed in the Spectrum of Ark 564 Using Reflection Models....Pages 521-527
Dynamics of Relativistic, Dissipative and Anisotropic Self-Gravitating Fluids....Pages 529-534
Hydrodynamic Version of the Equation of Motion of a Charged Complex Scalar Field....Pages 535-543
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