Multiphase Flow for Energy, Water and Food Applications
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 4560
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multiphase flows take place in a wide range of engineering applications such as power generation, water treatment, oil production, water desalination, refrigeration and air conditioning, and carbon capture and sequestration, as well as in other systems such as food and material handling processes. In order to achieve high efficiency and safe operation at low operation cost of these systems, accurate prediction of system performance at the best operating conditions is needed. The conventional analyses based on overall system performance and average thermo-fluid properties, are not adequate to achieve such efficient performance. This is because energy generation is associated with two-phase flow heat and mass transfer and change in phase. Therefore, accurate prediction of two-phase flow parameters is essential to obtain efficient sustainable energy systems. However, several challenges are encountered when analyzing two-phase flows. This is due to the interaction between phases, the behavior of the deformable phase, and the different flow patterns and their changes throughout the piping system and components. Additional complexities arise when the two-phase passes through multiple piping components located close to each other or continuous phase change or chemical interaction occur. This severely affects both the safety and reliability of energy or oil and gas transportation systems and sometimes leads to fatalities and huge economic loss. Achieving high-performance in food processing or water treatment systems require detailed analysis of multiphase mixtures in these systems. This Special Issue will provide an overview of typical two-phase flow challenges and solution approaches in water, energy, and food applications.
Prof. Dr. Wael H. Ahmed
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multiphase flow
- heat transfer
- phase change
- energy systems
- mixing
- mass transfer
- turbulence
- gas-solid mixtures
- liquid-liquid mixtures
- computational modeling of multiphase flow
- interfacial phenomena
- non-Newtonian fluids
