RSA CE&C 2015-2021 Group descriptions

28 MULTI-SCALE MODELING OF MULTIPHASE FLOWS Program leader/section leader Prof .dr.ir. J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers Scientific staff FTE Full professor Prof .dr.ir. J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers 1.0 Associate professors Dr.ir. N.G. (Niels) Deen ( until 01-2016, appointed as full professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU/e ) 1.0 Dr.ir. J.T. (Johan) Padding ( until 09-2016, appointed as full professor at the Faculty of 3ME of Delft University of Technology ) 1.0 Assistant professors Dr.ir. E.A.J.F. (Frank) Peters 1.0 Dr.ir. K.A. (Kay) Buist ( since 08-2016 ) 1.0 Dr.ir. M.W. (Maike) Baltussen ( since 11-2016 ) 1.0 Mission The Multi-Scale Modeling of Multiphase Flows (SMM) research group targets the development of experimentally validated computational models of multiphase chemical reactors. The central theme is the detailed investigation of the complex interplay of multiphase flow phenomena with coupled mass and heat transfer and accompanying multicomponent chemical reactions. Significant efforts are devoted to studying the hydrodynamics of such reactors because it is generally recognized that a lack of understanding of the flow phenomena is one of the central difficulties in the understanding, design and scale-up of multiphase chemical reactors. Specifically, we develop and validate multiphase computational fluid dynamics (MCFD) models to study transport phenomena in multiphase reactors at several time and length scales (i.e., at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic scales). For such complex systems involving mass, momentum and heat transfer, a multi-scale modeling approach is adopted in which the interactions between the phases can be properly accounted for.