Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer and Species Transport

Winter term

This course deals with single and multiphase flows, basic concepts of heat transfer modeling and species transport, considering free and porous media. All these phenomena are ubiquitous in chemical engineering and electrochemical systems.

Firstly, the physical interfaces corresponding to the simulation of single-phase, multiphase and porous media flows in both laminar and turbulent regimes are listed and described in detail. The description will be accompanied by the theoretical foundations on which each simulation interface is based. We will also include some interfaces for the flow of mixtures.

Secondly, we provide a general and detailed description of the concepts, methods and tools available for modeling heat transfer problems, including all the necessary theoretical foundations. We will list and describe in detail the different physical interfaces available for heat transfer in solids, fluids and with radiation. We will discuss some important cases in practice, such as non-isothermal flows and heat transfer in porous media.

Finally, we will list and describe in detail the physical interfaces corresponding to the simulation of the transport of chemical species in both dilute and concentrated cases. We will discuss some important cases in practice, such as reactive flows and species transport in porous media.

- Introduction to fluid dynamics.
- Physics interfaces of single-phase flow.
- Laminar and turbulent flows.
- Physics interfaces of multiphase flow and mixture models.

- Physical mechanisms of heat transfer.
- Heat transfer physics interfaces.
- Non-isothermal free flows.

- Physics interfaces of transport of diluted and concentrated chemical species.
- Reacting flows.
- Fluid flow, heat transfer and transport of chemical species in porous media.

- Fluid flow, heat transfer and transport of chemical species in porous media.

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