459 Particulate and Multiphase Flows I: Soft and Granular Systems

Wednesday, November 19, 2014: 8:30 AM
Marquis Ballroom A (Marriott Marquis Atlanta)
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:
Jacinta C. Conrad
Email: jcconrad@uh.edu

Co-Chair:
Jim Swan
Email: jswan@MIT.EDU

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.


8:45 AM
(459b) Laminar Flow of Suspensions through Bifurcating Channels
Sojwal Manoorkar, Omer Sedes, Sreenath Krishnan, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh and Jeffrey F. Morris

9:00 AM
(459c) Normal Stress Differences in Suspensions of Rigid Fibers
Jason Butler, Braden Snook, Elisabeth Guazzelli and Olivier Pouliquen

9:15 AM
(459d) Effect of Red Blood Cell Hematocrit on Platelet Adhesion in a Microchannel: Simulations and Experiments
Andrew P. Spann, James Campbell, Sean Fitzgibbon, Armando Rodriguez and Eric S. G. Shaqfeh
File available
9:30 AM
(459e) Flows in a Pancreatic Cell Islet Encapsulation Apparatus
Yannis Psihogios and Dimitris Hatziavramidis

10:00 AM
(459g) Mechanics of Biofilms at Oil-Water Interfaces
Liana Vaccari, Daniel B. Allan, Nima Sharifi-Mood, Jian Sheng, Mark D. Goulian, Robert L. Leheny and Kathleen J. Stebe

10:15 AM
(459h) An Extended Quadrature-Based Mass-Velocity Moment Model for 3-D Polydisperse Bubbly Flows
Cansheng Yuan, Bo Kong, Alberto Passalacqua, Akio Tomiyama and Rodney O. Fox

10:45 AM
(459j) Pressure Drop Oscillations in a Natural Circulation Boiling Loop
Swapan Paruya, P. Ray, Arnab Karmakar and Runa Dey
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