U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Gas/Solid Flow Systems and Fluidization

9981630 Arastoopour该奖项支持Hamid Arastoopour，三名研究生和一名来自伊利诺伊理工学院的博士后学生与德国布伦瑞克技术大学化学工程系的Matthias Bohnet合作。 该项目将侧重于使用欧拉和拉格朗日数值方法来模拟各种复杂几何形状的颗粒流。 联合国-德国团队将能够更好地了解气体和固体流动系统中的颗粒流动模式和相互作用，这些系统对石化，制药和材料加工等不同行业都有兴趣。 具体来说，他们将集中精力重新设计高效的扩散器，喷射器和鼓风机。 这两个小组具有对模型进行实验验证的互补能力，合作将导致该领域的重大进展。 此外，还大力强调对初级研究人员的培训。

9981630ArastoopourThis award supports Hamid Arastoopour, three graduate students, and a post-doctoral student from the Illinois Institute of Technology in a collaboration with Matthias Bohnet of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany. The project will focus on using the Eulerian and Lagrangian numerical methods to simulate particulate flow in various complex geometries. The combined U.S.-German team will be able to gain a better fundamental understanding of particle flow patterns and interactions in gas and solid flow systems that are of interest to such diverse industries as petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and material processing. Specifically, they will concentrate on the redesign of efficient diffusers, ejectors and blowers. The groups have complementary capabilities for experimental verification of the models, and the collaboration will lead to significant advances in the field. There is also a strong emphasis on training of junior researchers.