2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings

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

Sibani Lisa Biswal, Rice University

Co-Chair

James Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentations

12:30 PM

(368a) Migration of Deformable Blood Cells in Confined Shear Flows
Seemit Praharaj, David T. Leighton

12:45 PM

(368b) The Motion of a Tightly Fitting Vesicle in a Tube
Joseph M. Barakat, Andrew P. Spann, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

01:00 PM

(368c) Adhesion of Capsules to Surfaces
L. Gary Leal, Martin Keh

01:15 PM

(368d) Colloidal Depletion Gels, from Particle Bonds to Bulk Modulus
Eric Furst

01:30 PM

(368e) Delayed Yield in Reversible Colloidal Gels: A Micro-Mechanical Perspective
Roseanna Zia, Benjami Landrum, William. B. Russel

01:45 PM

(368f) Structural Diversity of Flow-Assisted Colloidal Crystallization in Vibration-Assisted Convective Assembly
James F. Gilchrist, Mark A. Snyder, Tanyakorn Muangnapoh, Midhun Joy

02:00 PM

(368g) Repressing Spurious Currents in the Modelling of Two-Phase Flows in Microfluidics
Simon Kuhn, Pieter Marynissen

02:15 PM

(368h) Biogenic Mixing in a Stratified Fluid
Arezoo Ardekani, Shiyan Wang

02:30 PM

(368i) Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Isothermal Two-Phase Flow over a Tube Bundle
Henry F. Meier, Vinicyus R. Wiggers, Dirceu Noriler, Waldir P. Martignoni, Diego N. Venturi, Jonathan Utzig

02:45 PM

(368j) Opposing Shear Induced Forces Dominate Inertial Focusing in High Reynolds Numbers
Eliezer Keinan, Elishai Ezra, Yaakov Nahmias