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School of Science, Technology and Health Stewart Honors Speaker Series

School of Science, Technology and Health - Stewart Science Honors Speaker Series

Dr. Jennifer Curtis (UC Davis) - Toward Simulation-Based Design of Particle Handling Processes

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This event is free to attend.


You are invited to the School of Science, Technology and Health Speaker Series. Distinguished industry leaders will be sharing with the Biola community their diverse professional and personal insights. This event is free and open to all.

This week, we will be featuring a speaker for the Stewart Science Honors Program. All are welcome!


This week's speaker is Dr. Jennifer Curtis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Davis.

Talk Title: Toward Simulation-Based Design of Particle Handling Processes

Talk Description: Particulates pervade geophysical processes, as well as the petroleum, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. Many of these industrial processes have significant opportunities for optimization and productivity enhancements. Reliable particle modeling and simulation tools can improve critical understanding and design of particle processes; this talk will provide several examples in this regard. A recent approach to modeling particle flow employs the discrete element method (DEM). In DEM, the dynamics of individual powder particles are described rather than treating the particle phase as a continuum via computational fluid dynamics (CFD). DEM is especially useful for investigating phenomena occurring at the particle-length scale. This presentation will focus on DEM modeling of complex particulate flows for particle mixtures with and without surface moisture, as well as rigid and flexible non-spherical particles. DEM simulations are also capable of developing constitutive relations for the particle phase that are needed for continuum-based CFD simulations in order to simulate large-scale processes.

For more information about the Stewart Science Honors Program, click here.



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