The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012. Written by experts in their respective fields, the contributions are organized into five parts: - Part I Invited Lectures, consisting of full-length technical papers on both computational and experimental fluid mechanics covering a wide range of topics from drops to multiphase and granular flows to astrophysical flows, - Part II Drops, Particles and Waves - Part III Multiphase and Multicomponent Flows - Part IV Atmospheric and Granular Flows - and Part V Turbulent and Astrophysical Flows. The book is intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as for physicists, chemists and engineers teaching and working in the field of fluid mechanics and its applications. The contributions are the result of recent advances in theoretical and experimental research in fluid mechanics, encompassing both fundamentals as well as applications to fluid engineering design, including pipelines, turbines, flow separators, hydraulic systems and biological fluid elements, and to granular, environmental and astrophysical flows.
Author(s): Leonardo Di. G. Sigalotti, Eloy Sira, Jaime Klapp, Leonardo Trujillo (auth.), Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti, Jaime Klapp, Eloy Sira (eds.)
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 554
Tags: Environmental Science and Engineering; Geophysics and Environmental Physics; Engineering Fluid Dynamics
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
....Pages 545-554
