Session: Particulate and Multiphase Flows (2008 Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 8:30 AM

Room 104-B (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:

This session will focus on theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies on microscopic and macroscopic hydrodynamic phenomena in suspensions, slurries, and other dispersed multiphase systems including (but not limited to) liquid-liquid or bubbly liquid systems.

Sponsor:

Fluid Mechanics

Chair:

Jeffrey F. Morris
Email: morris@ccny.cuny.edu

CoChair:

Nivedita R. Gupta
Email: ngupta@unh.edu

8:30 AM

(236a) Buoyancy-Driven Drop Squeezing through a Constriction
Thomas Ratcliffe, Robert H. Davis and Alexander Z. Zinchenko

8:45 AM

(236b) Binary Interaction of Deformable Capsules In a Shear Flow
RamMurthy Kalluri and Prosenjit Bagchi

9:00 AM

(236c) Using Stokes Cradle to Investigate Collisions Between 3 Wetted Particles
Carly M. Donahue, Christine M. Hrenya, Gustavo G. Joseph, Robert H. Davis, Alexandra Zelinskaya and Kenshiro Nakagawa

9:15 AM

(236d) Transverse Migration of Particles and Bubbles in Oscillatory Tube Flow
Philip P. Schonewill and David T. Leighton Jr.

9:30 AM

(236e) Fluid-Particle Drag In Bidisperse Gas-Solid Suspensions
Xiaolong Yin, William Holloway and Sankaran Sundaresan

9:45 AM

(236f) Structure and Dynamics of Settling Suspensions of Finite-Reynolds Number Fibers
Donald L. Koch and Mansoo Shin

10:00 AM

(236g) Bimodal Suspension Flow through An Abrupt Contraction-Expansion
Nancy F. Zeng, Holly J. Hester-Reilly and Nina C. Shapley

10:15 AM

(236h) Normal Stress Distribution In Squeeze Flow as An Indicator of the Transition from Fluid Flow to Granular Flow In Concentrated Suspensions
Khosrow Khodabandehlou and Francis A. Gadala-Maria

10:30 AM

(236i) Shear Rate Dependence of the Effective Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of a Granular "Fluid"
Isabel Figueroa and Joseph J. McCarthy

10:45 AM

(236j) Finite Element Modeling of Foam Self-Expansion
Rekha R. Rao, Harry K Moffat, David R Noble, Lisa A Mondy, Douglas B. Adolf and James Mahoney

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