Instabilities in Multiphase Flows / Edition 1

by A. Berlemont, G. Gouesbet

Overview

The study of multiphase flows is of utmost interest for engineers who are more or less inevitably faced with them when handling various industrial processes or when dealing with environmental problems such as the dispersion of pollutants. It is also a large kingdom assembling many beautiful and weird landscapes in which wandering researchers may be caught by the fascination of precious stones or mysterious insets to deep and obscure caverns. Unfortunately, it is also an historically disconnected field of research, as testified by any textbook contents or by the scientific programs of conferences devoted to multiphase flows. For instance, is there a relation between fluidization and the study of interfacial waves, or between the behaviour of an annular film of liquid and the one of a free surface heated from below? The answer is indeed: yes. To help reveal some unity behind the avatars of multiphase flow behaviours, it has been decided to focus the interest on the instability phenomena. This book therefore provides the reader with most of the papers which have been accepted and/or presented at the international symposium on "instabilities in multiphase flows" held at the National Institute for Applied Science (INS A) in Rouen, France, from the 11 th of May to the 14th of May 1992. The topic of the conference has produced a strong emphasis on instability theory and nonlinear dynamics, including chaotic phenomena.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306444982
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/30/1993
Series:	Duquesne Studies: Language and
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Chaotic Behavior of an Annular Film of Liquid Unstabilized by an Interfacial Shear Stress.- Experimental Observation of Type-I and Type-II Intermittencies.- Stability of Stationary Regime of Directed Crystallization.- Bubble Evolution in Liquid-Solid Solutions Viewed as an Elementary Catastrophe.- Modelisation of Pulverization Systems: Some Aspects of Linear Stability Analysis.- Overstability in an Infinite Liquid Layer under Simultaneous Surface Tension, Buoyancy and Shear Effects.- The Numerical Investigation of Boiling Flow in Heated Channels.- A Mathematical Description of the Critical Heat Flux as a Non-Linear Dynamic Instability.- Density Wave Oscillation in a Natural Circulation Loop of Liquid Nitrogen.- Study on the Effective Parameters for the Geysering Period.- Dynamics of a Reduced Model of Two-Phase Flow in a Boiling Channel.- Bifurcations in Two-Phase Flames.- Influence of the Surface Deformability on Concentration-Dependent, Oscillatory and Stationary Convection in a Liquid Layer.- Instabilities, Mass-Transfer and Self-Organization of Heat Cycles by Interaction of Laser Radiation with Liquids.- Transverse and Longitudinal Waves at an Air-Liquid Interface in the Presence of an Adsorption Barrier.- Application of Laser-Induced Thermal Lens Oscillation to Concentration Control in Solvent Extraction Processes.- Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Periodic Interfacial Waves between Two Viscous Fluid Layers.- Instabilities in Evaporating Liquid Films.- Kelvin-Helmholz Two-Phase Flow Instability.- Instabilities, Waves and Slugs in Pipeline Two-Phase Flows.- Instabilities and the Formation of Wave Patterns in Fluidized Beds.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Bubbling Fluidized Beds.- The Thermoconvective Instability in Hydrodynamics of Relaxational Liquids.- Dynamic Properties of Thermal Convection in Porous Medium.- Non-Linear Three Dimensional Miscible Viscous Fingering in Porous Media.- Viscous Fingering and Surface Structure Formation in Porous Media.- Transition Process of Laminar Confined Jet in Solid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow.- Two-Phase High Temperature Modelling for Granulation.- Contributors.

Editorial Reviews

In order to reveal some of the unities underlying the widely diverse behavior associated with multiphase flows, an international symposium was held in Rouen, France, May 1992, to focus specifically on the instabilities involved. The 28 papers that made it to the proceedings volume (surely a multiphase-flow process itself) discuss bubble evolution in liquid-solid solutions as elementary catastrophes, the numerical investigation of boiling flow in heated channels, instabilities in evaporating liquid films, and other aspects. Reproduced from typescripts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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