We investigate the Brownian motion of hard-sphere colloids near a solid wall by Evanescent Wave Dynamic Light Scattering (EWDLS). We carried out measurements for various volume fractions of sterically stabilized poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) particles over a range of scattering wave vectors, q. While in the dilute regime, the near wall short-time diffusion is significantly slowed down due to...

A two-phase flow model with liquid-solid transformation [M. Hütter, Phys. Rev. E 64, 011209 (2001)] is discussed, focusing on two elements: (1) the driving force for nucleation and growth and (2) the contribution of phase interfaces to the momentum balance. According to the model, nucleation and growth are partly driven by deviations from the equilibrium pressure difference between the phases, ...

The implementation of solid colloidal particles suspended in a binary fluid mixture via the lattice Boltzmann method is described. To represent colloids in a binary mixture, boundary conditions for mass and momentum at the solid-fluid interface are extended to include a conserved compositional order parameter. The parallelisation of the fluid-particle problem is addressed, and its scaling inves...

A fully mesoscopic, multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is developed to perform particle-resolved direct numerical simulation (DNS) of wallbounded turbulent particle-laden flows. The fluid–solid particle interfaces are treated as sharp interfaces with no-slip and no-penetration conditions. The force and torque acting on a solid particle are computed by a local Galilean...

Gas holdup and bubble size are important parameters for simulation and designing in bubble column reactors. Because based on these parameters, the available gas-liquid interfacial area is defined for mass transfer. In this paper, the results of applying magnetic fields on the velocity field and volume fraction of gas holdup are reported. Hydrodynamics of the bubble column in the reactors is inv...

There is increasing evidence that entropy can induce microphase separation in binary fluid mixtures interacting through hard particle potentials. One such phase consists of alternating two-dimensional liquidlike layers of rods and spheres. We study the transition from a uniform miscible state to this ordered state using computer simulations, and compare results to experiments and theory. We con...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of heat treatment including solution treatment and aging on the microstructure of cast nickel-based in100 superalloy including size, volume fraction and morphology of primary γ' and different kinds of carbides. for this purpose, different solution heat treatment cycles and a constant aging cycle were implemented on cast ingot samples and t...

Thixoforging, one variant of semi-solid metal processing in which the metallic alloys are processed at low liquid fraction (0.1< Fl < 0.3), is used to produce complex parts with high mechanical properties. Steel thixoforging faces more challenges as compared to that of low melting point materials due to high processing temperature and lack of understanding of the thermomechanical behavior of ma...

the problem of steady magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid due to an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with heat source/sink in presence of thermal radiation is numerically investigated. the effect of transverse brownian motion and thermophoresis on heat transfer and nano particle volume fraction considered. the governing partial differential eq...