ABSTRACT
Gas/solid flows arise in many engineering technologies, i.e., control of particulate pollution, combustion of pulverized coal, fluidized bed mixing, plasma-arc coatings, and other applications. The dynamics and heat transfer in gas/solid flows provide important information in the design of rocket propulsion systems with metallized fuels. Also, applications arise in the design of advanced spray techniques in materials processing, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical products. These two-phase systems involve the transport of suspended solid particles in a gas flow stream, and in many cases, heat transfer by convection, radiation, or phase change. In many cases, the particles are small enough to be considered isothermal, i.e., negligible spatial gradients of temperature within each particle. In this chapter, we will consider various aspects of heat and momentum transport in the analysis of gas/solid flows.
