[PDF] Fluid Flow for Chemical Engineers by A. Holland and R. Bragg

In getting ready the second version of this ebook, the authors have been involved to keep up or broaden these facets of the topic which can be particular to chemical and course of engineering. Thus, the chapter on gas-liquid two-phase movement has been vastly prolonged to cowl movement within the bubble regime in addition to to supply an introduction to the homogeneous mannequin and separated movement mannequin for the opposite movement regimes.The chapter on nonoNewtonian movement has additionally been prolonged to supply a higher emphasis on the Rabinowitsch-Mooney equation and its modification to cope with instances of obvious wall slip usually encountered within the movement of suspensions. An elementary dialogue of viscoelasticity has additionally been given. A second purpose has been to make the ebook extra practically self-contained and to this finish a considerable introductory chapter has been written. Along with the fabric supplied within the first version, the rules of continuity, momentum of a flowing fluid, and stresses in fluids are mentioned.

There may be additionally an elementary remedy of turbulence. All through the ebook there may be extra rationalization than within the first version. One results of it is a lengthening of the textual content and it has been essential to omit the examples of purposes of the Navier-Stokes equations that got within the first version. Nonetheless, derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations and associated materials has been supplied in an appendix.

The authors want to acknowledge the assistance given by Miss S.A. Petherick in endeavor a lot of the phrase processing of the manuscript for this version. It’s hoped that this ebook will proceed to function a helpful undergraduate textual content for college students of chemical engineering and associated disciplines. Though gases and liquids include molecules, it’s doable normally to deal with them as steady media for the needs of fluid movement calculations.

On a size scale similar to the imply free path between collisions, giant speedy fluctuations of properties comparable to the rate and density happen. Nonetheless, fluid movement is worried with the macroscopic scale” the standard size scale of the tools is many orders of magnitude higher than the imply free path. Even when an instrument is positioned within the fluid to measure some property such because the strain, the measurement will not be made at a point–rather, the instrument is delicate to the properties of a small quantity of fluid round its measuring ingredient.

Though this measurement quantity could also be minute in contrast with the amount of fluid within the tools, it should typically comprise hundreds of thousands of molecules and consequently the instrument measures a mean worth of the property. In nearly all fluid movement issues it’s doable to pick out a measurement quantity that could be very small in contrast with the movement subject but accommodates so many molecules that the properties of particular person molecules are averaged out. A cloth is isotropic if its properties are the identical in all instructions. Gases and easy liquids are isotropic however liquids having complicated, chain-like molecules, comparable to polymers, could exhibit totally different properties in numerous instructions. For instance, polymer molecules are likely to turn out to be partially aligned in a shearing movement.

Fluid flow for chemical engineers

Author(s): F A Holland; R Bragg

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann, Year: 2002

ISBN: 9780080523699