421 Particulate and Multiphase Flows II: Structure and Assembly

Tuesday, November 10, 2015: 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM
150A/B (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:
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.

Sponsor:
Fluid Mechanics
Chair:
James Swan Email: jswan@mit.edu
Co-Chair:
Sibani L. Biswal Email: biswal@rice.edu
- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.



3:15 PM
(421a) General Rheology of Concentrated Emulsions with Surfactant
Alexander Zinchenko and Robert H. Davis


3:30 PM
(421b) A Study of Solids Suspension Homogeneity in Agitated Tanks Fitted with Disk Type Impellers Using Electrical Resistance Tomography
Sanja Miskovic, Manjunath Basavarajappa and Xuwen Deng


3:45 PM
(421c) Millifluidic Experiments and Models to Elucidate Proppant Flow in in Idealized Fractures
Rekha R. Rao, Anne M. Grillet, Christine Cardinal Roberts, Mathew Ingraham, Stephen Bauer, Daniel Bolintineanu, Jeremy Lechman and Enrico Quintana

File available
4:00 PM
(421d) Selection of One-Dimensional Dispersed Bubble Flow Closure Relations Via Three-Dimensional Simulations
Florentina Popa and Brent Houchens


4:15 PM
(421e) Measurement and CFD Simulation of Liquid-Liquid Settling in Rare Earths Solvent Extraction Mixer-Settler
Sishi Ye, Qiao Tang and Yundong Wang


4:30 PM
(421f) Gas-Bubble Retention and Release Behavior in Deep Sediment Layers
Phillip A. Gauglitz, Philip P. Schonewill, Rick W. Shimskey, Michael R. Powell, Greg K. Boeringa and Joseph E. Meacham


4:45 PM
(421g) Effect of Distributor Design on Gas Holdup for Slurry Bubble Column
Saba Gheni

File available
5:00 PM
(421h) Velocity-Dependent Foam Rheology in Porous Media for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Yongchao Zeng, Jeffrey Joyce, Chang Da, Aarthi Muthuswamy, Qiqi Xiang, Ying Wang, Maura Puerto, George J. Hirasaki and Sibani L. Biswal


5:15 PM
(421i) Effect of Particle-to-Fluid Density Ratio on Stable-Unstable Transition in a Small-Scale Sedimentating Fluid-Solid System to Test the Limit of a Kinetic-Theory-Based Model
William Fullmer, Guodong Liu, Xiaoqi Li, Xiaolong Yin and Christine M. Hrenya
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