Chemical Kinetics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Chemical Reactors Analysis and Design

Dear Colleagues,

Continued progress in computing hardware and software are markedly affecting the approaches adopted to chemical processes equipment analysis and design. Particularly, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is becoming an increasingly used tool in many fields within Chemical Engineering.

Chemical reactors are one of the exemplifying cases of the sorts of equipment benefitted by the abovementioned progress, the design of which may be notably improved by the use of CFD. This is because this tool is capable of describing the hydrodynamics of very complex situations; for instance, as occurs in most of the multiphase reactors. Due to the dramatic effect of the fluids’ contact on reactor performance it is clear that CFD is to some extent revolutionizing chemical reaction engineering. Obviously, not only hydrodynamics is important. Heat transfer and chemical kinetics are integrated in CFD models in a natural way through the conservation equations. Therefore, CFD modeling allows a complete description of the phenomena governing reactor performance, thus, giving rise to an unprecedented powerful tool to guide design and scale-up.

Within this context, this Special Issue aims at compiling relevant contributions showing the capabilities of CFD applied to the analysis and design of any type of chemical reactor. Manuscripts in which the modeling results are validated by experimental evidence are particularly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Luis M. Gandía
Dr. Fernando Bimbela
Guest Editors

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