ME 537 Multiphase Flows

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Course Description

The material in this course will provide the student with the fundamental background in fluid mechanics and the necessary understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human vascular system to carry out research in the area of cardiovascular fluid mechanics. Topics that will be covered include normal physiological flow in veins and arteries, flow related pathologies such as thrombosis, atherosclerosis, stenosis, aneurysms, heart valve disfunction. Applications to mechanics-based medical devices and therapies will also be a significant part of the course.

Lecture Notes

Stokes Flow around a sphere (negligible inertia)

Assigned Homework Sets

Midterm Exam. Due on Thrusday, Nov. 12 at 9 am.

Numerical Simulation of Turbulence Drag Reduction by Microbubbles.

Syllabus

Introductions, syllabus, course administration.                                    Week 0

Stokes flow around a spherical particle and Oseen correction.             Week 1

Bubble dynamics.                                                                                Week 6

Textbook

The required texts for this course are:

        1. Crowe, C.T., Sommerfeld, M. and Yutaka, T.  “Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles”, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 1998.
        2. Crowe, C.T. “Multiphase Flow Handbook”. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Fl. 2006.
        3. Brennen, C.E.”Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow”, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005.
                    

Grading

Homework               30%        

Personal Project       45%

Midterm                  25%

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