Interfaces and multicomponent fluids
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چکیده
Many important industrial problems involve flows with multiple constitutive components. Examples include extractors, separators, reactors, sprays, polymer blends, and microfluidic applications such as DNA analysis, and protein crystallization. Due to inherent nonlinearities, topological changes, and the complexity of dealing with unknown, active, and moving surfaces, multiphase flows are challenging. Much effort has been put into studying such flows through analysis, asymptotics, and numerical simulation. Here, we focus on review on studies of multicomponent fluids using continuum numerical methods.
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