In mechanical engineering field, education curriculum in undergraduate course concentrates on the basic subjects of mechanical engineering such as mathematics, mechanics, material mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, control engineering, design, etc. Concerning the course relating to powder technology, we have a class of âFluid-Solid Multiphase Flowâ in the curriculum of graduate school of engineering.
The contents of âfluid-solid two-phase flowâ is as follows;
1ï¼Introduction: examples of multiphase flow
2ï¼Definitions and fundamental concepts
3ï¼Particle response time and Stokes number
4ï¼Fluid force acting on particle
5ï¼Fluid force acting on particle in dense system
6ï¼Particle-wall and particle-particle interaction
7ï¼Heat and mass transfer
8ï¼Continuous phase flow equations
9ï¼Modeling of fluid-solid multiphase flow
10ï¼Discrete particle modeling and simulation
11ï¼Numerical simulation method for continuous phase flow
This course includes basic concepts of powder technology, dynamics of particles in fluid flow, derivation of basic equations for locally-volume-averaged fluid flow, discrete particle modeling including DEM (Discrete Element Method), and basics of numerical analysis and modeling.