Research Catalog

Title

Computational transport phenomena for engineering analyses / Richard C. Farmer [and others].

Publication

• Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2017]
• ©2009

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Additional Authors

Farmer, Richard C.

Description

xxvi, 504 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Transport theory > Mathematics

Note

• "First issued in paperback 2017'"--Page 2 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781420067569
• 1420067567
• 9781138114296
• 1138114294

LCCN

2008054551

OCLC

• ocn156818643
• 156818643
• SCSB-9159192

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library