Visualization and Simulation of Microstructural Dynamics of Complex Fluid–Particle Systems: Process Industry Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Process industries worldwide are undergoing a deep and wide-ranging transformation from automated mechanical manufacturing facilities to multicomponent, digital-platform-enabled and multiplex-server-supported fast production enterprises. An innovative scientific and engineering drive comprising dynamic computer simulations coupled with the advances achieved in process applications of nondestructive imaging and process tomography provides the basis for further advancement of the digital transformation of the process industries. Simultaneous application of these cutting-edge techniques provides for in-depth investigations of the microstructural changes that take place during the processing of advanced functional products tailored from often recycled and regenerated raw materials.

Green process considerations including minimization of waste and improved process efficiency coupled with reductions in energy consumption can be addressed within a digitally transformed process sector at multiple scales of scrutiny, namely, microscopic (particles and molecules), mesoscopic (suspensions, aerosols), and macroscopic (multiphase, complex products) using numerical simulations and tomographic techniques in tandem.

We particularly invite papers in remote imaging and tomography of complex flows such as fiber flows, immiscible flows, aerated solid–liquid flows, bubble flows, and emulsion flows that require complex rheological characterization as well as the modeling of fluid–particle interactions in both dilute and dense-phase applications involving particles of varying sizes, aspect ratios, and internal and external surface features that can be tailor-made for targeted functionality using for instance 3D printing and other fabrication techniques.

Prof. Dr. Pedro Manuel Gens Azevedo de Matos Faia
Prof. Dr. Maria da Graça Bontempo Vaz Rasteiro
Prof. Dr. Ugur Tuzun
Guest Editors

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