Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Flows (eBook)

Roberto Mauri is a professor of Chemical Engineering (DICCISM) at the University of Pisa, Italy. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Politecnico di Milano and his Ph.D. from Technion, Haifa, Israel in 1984. He has been a visiting professor and teacher at MIT (Cambridge, USA), City College of CUNY and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA). Professor Mauri has more than 60 publications to his name. He received the Landau prize in Tel Aviv in 1984.In 2012 he published his book "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Multiphase Flows" with Springer.c

Thermodynamics and evolution.- Statics of fluids.- General features of fluid mechanics.- Macroscopic balances.- Velocity and pressure fields.- Fundamental equations of transport phenomena.- Uni-directional flows.- Laminar boundary layer.- Heat Conduction.- Conduction with heat generation.- Macroscopic energy balance.- Time-dependent heat conduction.- Convective heat transport.- Constitutive equation of mass transport.- Steady mass transport.- Unsteady mass transport.- Convective mass transport.- Transport phenomena in turbulent flows.- Natural convection.- Radiation.- Anti-diffusion.- Biomedical engineering applications.- Appendix 1 Properties of pure substances at 1 atm.- Appendix 2 Viscosity and surface tension of several fluids.- Appendix 3 Unit conversions.- Appendix 4 Fundamental equations (Eulerian approach).- Appendix 5 Equations of motion in in curvilinear coordinates.- Appendix 6 Vector and tensor notation.- Solutions of exercises - Part I.- Solutions of exercises - Part II.- Bibliography.- Subject Index.