Population Balance of Particles in Flows
From Aerosols to Crystallisation

A self-contained text that explains the population balance methodology, including its coupling with fluid mechanics and its applications.

Stelios Rigopoulos (Author)

9781316512579, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 November 2024

402 pages
25 x 17.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.83 kg

The population balance methodology provides a powerful framework for studying polydisperse entities such as aerosols, crystals and bubbles. This self-contained and accessible book explains how this theoretical framework can be employed across a wide range of scientific, engineering and environmental problems. The methodology is explained step-by-step, showing readers how to use these techniques by formulating the population balance problem, choosing models and implementing appropriate solution methods. Particular focus is given to the coupling of the population balance with fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in both laminar and turbulent flows. Applications of the population balance methodology are explored in case studies including nanoparticle synthesis, soot formation and crystallisation, and sample open-source code is provided. This book will be valuable to researchers across a range of disciplines including chemical and mechanical engineering, physics and environmental science, and can be used as a resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notation
1. Introductory concepts
2. Formulation of the population balance
3. Kinetic and transport processes
4. Solution of the PBE
5. Population balance in turbulent flow
6. Case studies of CFD-PBE application
Appendix A. Coupling of PBE with fluid flow, heat and mass transfer
Appendix B. Implementation of the conservative finite volume discretisation method
Appendix C. Derivation of the PDF transport equation
Appendix D. Derivation of the stochastic field equation
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Nonlinear science [PBWR]