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Analyzing Mixing Inhomogeneity in a Microfluidic Device by Microscale Schlieren Technique
Published on: June 12, 2015
Coarse-grained computations of demixing in dense gas-fluidized beds
Sung Joon Moon1, S Sundaresan, I G Kevrekidis
1Department of Chemical Engineering & Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Abstract:
We use an "equation-free," coarse-grained computational approach to accelerate molecular dynamics-based computations of demixing (segregation) of dissimilar particles subject to an upward gas flow (gas-fluidized beds). We explore the coarse-grained dynamics of these phenomena in gently fluidized beds of solid mixtures of different densities, typically a slow process for which reasonable continuum models are currently unavailable.
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