High pressure homogenization–an update on its usage and understanding

P Inguva, S Grasselli, PWS Heng - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite being a technology of several decades, high pressure homogenization (HPH)
remains widely used in food and pharmaceutical industries, often as an essential unit …

Lattice Boltzmann simulations for multi-scale chemical engineering

HEA Van den Akker - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Lattice Boltzmann models have a firm and sound basis in mesoscopic physics.•
Computationally, Lattice Boltzmann methods outclass other simulation techniques.•The …

Numerical study of molten metal melt pool behaviour during conduction-mode laser spot melting

A Ebrahimi, CR Kleijn… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Molten metal melt pools are characterised by highly non-linear responses, which are very
sensitive to imposed boundary conditions. Temporal and spatial variations in the energy flux …

Droplet–turbulence interactions and quasi-equilibrium dynamics in turbulent emulsions

S Mukherjee, A Safdari, O Shardt… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) of emulsions in homogeneous isotropic
turbulence using a pseudopotential lattice-Boltzmann (PP-LB) method. Improving on …

[HTML][HTML] A surrogate modelling strategy to improve the surface morphology quality of inkjet printing applications

JF Reyes-Luna, S Chang, C Tuck, I Ashcroft - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current trends in manufacturing electronics feature digital inkjet printing as a key technology
to enable the production of customised and microscale functional devices. However …

Droplet impacting a superhydrophobic mesh array: Effect of liquid properties

G Wang, J Gao, KH Luo - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Generation of monodisperse droplets by a large droplet impacting a mesh array is a
common technique in microfluidic engineering, materials science, and drug production …

[HTML][HTML] An extensive numerical benchmark of the various magnetohydrodynamic flows

A Blishchik, M van der Lans, S Kenjereš - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a continuous need for an updated series of numerical benchmarks dealing with
various aspects of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) phenomena (ie interactions of the …

Dynamical vapour pocket of an impacting Leidenfrost droplet: Evaporation and scaling relations

W Yuan, T Wei, M Zhang - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the impact of a three-dimensional droplet falling on a hot surface above the
Leidenfrost temperature is investigated by a volume-of-fluid based Navier–Stokes solver for …

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of water droplet impacting a hydrophobic plate with a cylindrical pore

G Wang, L Fei, KH Luo - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
This work uses a nonorthogonal multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) method to
simulate a water droplet impacting on a hydrophobic plate with a cylindrical pore. The LB …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale simulation of elongated particles in fluidised beds

BW Fitzgerald, A Zarghami, VV Mahajan… - … Engineering Science: X, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a number of key numerical methods that can be used to study
elongated particles in fluid flows, with a specific emphasis on fluidised beds. Fluidised beds …