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Towards Mesoscience

The Principle of Compromise in Competition

  • The first book on meso-science
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Background: Correlating Microscale and Macroscale

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 1-6
  3. Verification and Application of the EMMS Principle

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 19-31
  4. Extension and Generalization of the EMMS Principle

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 33-44
  5. The EMMS Principle in Virtual Process Engineering

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 45-49
  6. Towards Mesoscience

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 51-61
  7. Perspectives of Mesoscience

    • Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang
    Pages 63-69
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 71-78

About this book

This brief is devoted to providing a complete outline of meso-science by briefing the relevant contents from the published book and by updating evidences and concepts of meso-science. The importance of meso-science in solving various problems in energy, resource, and the environment is introduced.  The whole evolutionary development of the EMMS principle is reviewed to show how a simple idea on the customized modeling of particle clustering in gas-solid systems was developed, verified, extended, and finally generalized into the common principle of compromise in competition between dominant mechanisms for all mesoscale phenomena in science and engineering, leading to the proposition of meso-science. More importantly, updates on the concept of meso-science and perspectives are presented, along with new insights and findings from after the publication of the original book. In this way, we hope to help readers more easily familiarize themselves with meso-science, and to trigger interest and attention to this interdisciplinary field.

 Application areas include:

  • multiphase flow and fluid dynamics
  • chemical, biochemical and process engineering
  • mineral processing and metallurgical engineering
  • energy and resources
  • material science and engineering

Jinghai Li is vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), professor at Institute of Process Engineering of CAS. Wenlai Huang is associate professor at Institute of Process Engineering of CAS.

This book has been translated into Chinese and published by Science Press, please visit here for the Chinese version: http://www.sciencep.com/s_single.php?id=35751

Authors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Jinghai Li

  • Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Wenlai Huang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards Mesoscience

  • Book Subtitle: The Principle of Compromise in Competition

  • Authors: Jinghai Li, Wenlai Huang

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41790-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41789-4Published: 04 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41790-0Published: 24 January 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2191-530X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 78

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, general

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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