2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Particulate and Multiphase Flows I: Soft and Granular Systems

This session of contributed talks focuses on theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies on hydrodynamic phenomena in suspensions, slurries, and other dispersed multiphase systems including (but not limited to) solid-liquid, liquid-liquid, or bubbly-liquid systems.

Chair

Jacinta C. Conrad, University of Houston

Co-Chair

Jim Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentations

08:30 AM

(459a) Modeling Porous or Reactive Surfaces Under Strong Shear: Beyond Damkohler
Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Preyas Shah

08:45 AM

(459b) Laminar Flow of Suspensions through Bifurcating Channels
Sojwal Manoorkar, Omer Sedes, Jeffrey F. Morris, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Sreenath Krishnan

09:00 AM

(459c) Normal Stress Differences in Suspensions of Rigid Fibers
Jason Butler, Braden Snook, Elisabeth Guazzelli, Olivier Pouliquen

09:15 AM

(459d) Effect of Red Blood Cell Hematocrit on Platelet Adhesion in a Microchannel: Simulations and Experiments
Andrew P. Spann, James Campbell, Sean Fitzgibbon, Armando Rodriguez, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

09:30 AM

(459e) Flows in a Pancreatic Cell Islet Encapsulation Apparatus
Dimitris Hatziavramidis, Yannis Psihogios

09:45 AM

(459f) Life at the Oil-Water Interface: Degradation of Crude Oil By Bacteria
Gabriel Juarez, Roman Stocker

10:00 AM

(459g) Mechanics of Biofilms at Oil-Water Interfaces
Liana Vaccari, Daniel B. Allan, Nima Sharifi-Mood, Jian Sheng, Mark D. Goulian, Robert L. Leheny, Kathleen J. Stebe

10:15 AM

(459h) An Extended Quadrature-Based Mass-Velocity Moment Model for 3-D Polydisperse Bubbly Flows
Rodney O. Fox, Bo Kong, Alberto Passalacqua, Akio Tomiyama, Cansheng Yuan

10:30 AM

(459i) Wall Shear Stress Generated By Bubble Swarms in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Liquids
Lutz Böhm, Matthias Kraume

10:45 AM

(459j) Pressure Drop Oscillations in a Natural Circulation Boiling Loop
Swapan Paruya, P. Ray, Arnab Karmakar, Runa Dey