Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Guazzelli is Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She did her graduate training in physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay aux Roses and Universite Paris-Sud. Her research interests are in the field of particulate multiphase flows! such as granular media! fluidized beds! suspensions! and sedimentation. Jeff Morris is Professor of Chemical Engineering and a member of the Levich Institute at City College! the City University of New York. Klappentext Opens up the field by introducing theoretical! mathematical concepts in physical form through examples. Zusammenfassung This accessible introduction opens up the field by presenting theoretical! mathematical concepts through concrete examples. Students and researchers from various other disciplines! including engineering! geophysics and applied mathematics! will value this text! which is a springboard for further study of the many open questions in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prologue; Part I. Microhydrodynamics: 1. Basic concepts in viscous flow; 2. One sphere in Stokes flow; 3. Sophisticated techniques; 4. Particle pair interactions; Interlude: from the microscopic to the macroscopic; 5. Statistical and stochastic concepts; Part II. Toward a Description of Macroscopic Phenomena in Suspensions: 6. Sedimentation; 7. Shear flow; 8. Beyond Stokes flow: finite inertia; Epilogue; References; Index.

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Opens up the field by introducing theoretical, mathematical concepts in physical form through examples.

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This accessible introduction opens up the field by presenting theoretical, mathematical concepts through concrete examples. Students and researchers from various other disciplines, including engineering, geophysics and applied mathematics, will value this text, which is a springboard for further study of the many open questions in the field.

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Preface; Prologue; Part I. Microhydrodynamics: 1. Basic concepts in viscous flow; 2. One sphere in Stokes flow; 3. Sophisticated techniques; 4. Particle pair interactions; Interlude: from the microscopic to the macroscopic; 5. Statistical and stochastic concepts; Part II. Toward a Description of Macroscopic Phenomena in Suspensions: 6. Sedimentation; 7. Shear flow; 8. Beyond Stokes flow: finite inertia; Epilogue; References; Index.