Advances in Chemical Engineering: Multiscale Analysis

Content: Cover -- Advances in Chemical Engineering -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- A Review of Multiscale Analysis: Examples from Systems Biology, Materials Engineering, and Other Fluid-Surface Interacting Systems -- Introduction -- Deterministic, Continuum Models -- Hierarchy of Models -- Solving Deterministic, Continuum Differential Equation Models: Techniques and Status -- Overview of Discrete, Particle Models -- Hierarchy of Stochastic Models for Well-mixed, Chemically Reacting Systems -- Solving Master Equations Stochastically: Monte Carlo Methods -- Classification of Multiscale Simulation Approaches -- Hybrid Multiscale Simulation -- Onion-type Hybrid Multiscale Simulations and Algorithms -- Application of Onion-type Hybrid Multiscale Simulation to Growth of Materials -- Applications of Onion-type Hybrid Multiscale Simulation to Other Areas -- Multigrid-type Hybrid Multiscale Simulations -- An Example of Multigrid-type Hybrid Multiscale Simulation for Growth under Large Length Scale Gradients -- Challenges in Hybrid Multiscale Simulations -- Coarse Graining of Stochastic Models -- Temporal Upscaling of KMC Simulation in Well-mixed Systems -- Spatial Upscaling of Distributed (Lattice) KMC Simulation -- Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Distributed (Lattice) KMC Simulation -- Multiscale, Stochastic Modeling of Biological Networks -- Spatially Well-mixed Systems -- Spatially Distributed Systems -- Systems Tasks -- Sensitivity and Identifiability Analyses -- Parameter Estimation from Experimental Data and Finer Scale Models -- Model Reduction and Control -- Bifurcation -- Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- Quantifying Physics and Chemistry at Multiple Length-scales using Magnetic Resonance Techniques -- Introduction -- Principles of MR Measurements -- Spatially Unresolved and Spatially Resolved Experiments -- Nuclear Spin Relaxation Times -- Transport -- Temperature -- The K-space Raster -- Fast Data Acquisition -- Recent Developments in MR as a Tool in Chemical Engineering Research -- ''Ultra-fast'' Imaging of Velocity Fields -- Multiple Images From a Single Excitation -- Imaging Rotating Systems -- ''Ultra-fast'' Diffusion Measurement -- Gas-phase MR -- Reaction Engineering: From Catalyst to Reactor -- MR Spectroscopy of Catalysts -- Micro-imaging and Molecular Diffusion Studies of Formed Catalyst Pellets -- Single-Phase Flow in Fixed-Bed Reactors -- Measuring Chemical Composition and Mass Transfer in Fixed-Bed Reactors: In Situ Studies of Reactions -- Two-Phase Flow in Fixed-Bed Reactors -- Hydrodynamic Transitions in Fixed-Bed Reactors -- Future Prospects -- Acknowledgments -- Modeling of Transport and Transformation Processes in Porous and Multiphase Bodies -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Representation of Multiphase Media -- Structure Acquisition -- Morphological Characterization -- Digital Reconstruction of Multiphase Media -- Calculation of Effective Properties -- Effective-scale Transport Models -- Transformations -- Skeletonization -- Phase Transitions