Multiphase Flow Challenges in Continuum Mechanics
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What challenge arises in the mathematical formulation of multiphase flows when inter-facial surfaces are present?

Difficulty in formulating differential balances for the set of sub-regions

How can a multiphase flow be conceptually considered to overcome the challenge of differential balances?

As a field of sub-regions of single phase flow with moving and varying boundary conditions

What is the goal of employing proper averaging in a multiphase flow model?

To obtain mean values of fluid motions and eliminate local instantaneous fluctuations

What are the difficulties arising in a multiphase flow model due to large discontinuities of properties across an interface?

<ol> <li>Large discontinuities of properties 2. Multiple moving interfaces 3. Fluctuations of variables</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

Why does the differential balance not hold for the set of sub-regions in a multiphase flow?

<p>It would violate the law of continuity</p> Signup and view all the answers

How is the unifying approach towards a multiphase flow model achieved?

<p>By describing the local properties of the flow and obtaining macroscopic properties through averaging</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the coefficients CD, CM, CH, CLR, and CLS in the BBO equation?

<p>drag, virtual-mass, history, rotation-induced, and shear-induced lift coefficients</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens to the coefficients CD, CM, CH, CLR, and CLS in the creeping flow regime when the particle is spherical?

<p>They converge to 1 as the Reynolds number approaches 0.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the reduced form of the BBO equation (2.120) when the particle phase is much denser than the fluid phase?

<p>dUp/CDRep = g + uf - Up<em>dt/(24</em>τp)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the MRG equation, what terms are included in the similar extension as in the BBO equation?

<p>all relevant terms</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can the velocity field previously defined in Eqs.(2.10a) and (2.10b) be verified to satisfy mass conservation?

<p>Irrespective of how ψ(r, θ) is expressed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Stokes streamfunction ψ(r, θ) represent in the context of the velocity field defined in Eqs.(2.10a) and (2.10b)?

<p>The streamfunction in the velocity field.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who proposed the drag coefficient for a rigid sphere as derived by van Dyke?

<p>van Dyke</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the form of van Dyke's drag coefficient for a rigid sphere?

<p>CD = 24 Rep (Reo / (Reo + Rep))^23</p> Signup and view all the answers

What limitation is pointed out in PPKL's correction to Oseen's work?

<p>The linearization of the advective term is not valid in the boundary layer of the sphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who considered the matched asymptotic expansion of the full Navier-Stokes equations to derive a uniformly valid solution close to a sphere?

<p>PPKL and Oseen</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the drag coefficient equation by Goldstein, what term involves Re2?

<p>24 Rep</p> Signup and view all the answers

What transformation did van Dyke use to propose a drag coefficient that converges to infinity?

<p>Euler transformation</p> Signup and view all the answers

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