Complex Flows in Industrial Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Flows of Nonlinear Materials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Molecular Theories of Polymer Viscosity

      • G. Marrucci, G. Ianniruberto

      Pages 3-24

   3. Sedimentation in Coal-Water Slurry Pipelining

      • Fabio Rosso

      Pages 25-61

   4. Problems of Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics in Industrial Plants

      • Alessandro Terenzi, E. Carniani, E. Donati, D. Ercolani

      Pages 63-124

   5. Spurt in the Extrusion of Polymeric Melts: Discrete Models for Relaxation Oscillations

      • A. A. F. Van De Ven

      Pages 125-145

3. Flows Accompanied by Thermal Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Isobaric Crystallization of Polypropylene

      • Antonio Fasano, A. Mancini, S. Mazzullo

      Pages 149-189

   3. Mathematical Modeling of Some Glass Problems

      • K. Laevsky, R. M. M. Mattheij

      Pages 191-214

   4. Mathematical Problems in the Ziegler—Natta Polymerization Process

      • Daniele Andreucci, Riccardo Ricci

      Pages 215-238

4. Nonlinear Flows in Porous Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. The Espresso Coffee Problem

      • Antonio Fasano, F. Talamucci, M. Petracco

      Pages 241-280

   3. Infiltration Processes in Composite Materials Manufacturing: Modeling and Qualitative Results

      • Angiolo Farina, Luigi Preziosi

      Pages 281-306

   4. Porous Media with Hydrophile Granules

      • Antonio Fasano

      Pages 307-332

5. Back Matter

   Pages 333-338

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Despite the fact that fluid dynamics and filtration through porous media and mathematics, there are classical research areas in engineering, physics, are still many industrial processes that require the study of new mathemat­ ical models for flows of particular complexity, due to the peculiar properties of the systems involved. The aim of this book is to provide a number of examples showing how frequently such situations arise in various branches of industrial technology. The selection of the subjects was motivated not only by their industrial rel­ evance and mathematical interest. What I had in mind was a collection of problems having a really distinctive character, thus bringing some fresh air into one of the oldest and most revered domains of applied mathematics. The incredible richness of nonstandard flow problems in industrial appli­ cations has always been, and still is, a constant surprise to me. Therefore I tried to offer a very large spectrum of subjects, with special attention devoted to those problems in which the modeling phase is far from being obvious, and the mathematical content is absolutely nontrivial. With such a view to diversity, topics have been selected from a variety of sources (such as glass industry, polymers science, coffee brewing, fuels pipelining), and contributors from different backgrounds (mathematics, physics, chemical engineering) have been included. Consequently, the mathematical nature of the problems formulated spans over a large range, so that their theoret­ ical investigation and numerical computation require a variety of different techniques.

• composite material
• dynamics
• fluid dynamics
• fluid mechanics
• heat and mass transfer
• materials
• math modeling
• model
• modeling
• porous media
• process engineering

• Dipartimento di Matematica “U. Dini”, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

  Antonio Fasano

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