1993 Volume 33 Issue 6 Pages 619-639
Macroscopic flow phenomena play important roles not only for improving productivity and energy efficiency but also for achieving the stable operation in metallurgical and chemical reactors. This review paper deals with flow phenomena of four fluids which are single-phase or multi-phase flow of gas, fine particles, liquid and packed particles. In some previous researches on the multi-phase flow, fundamental equations were derived for a continuous fluid phase and dispersed phases with different types of modeling. However, in this paper, continuous flow was assumed for each phase in the derivation of the equation of motion for obtaining the numerical solution. The model has been applied to the simulation of not only four phase flows but also one to three phase flows. Typical examples for application will be described for several processes.
