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AN INTRODUCTION TO GRANULAR FLOW
The flow of granular materials such as sand, snow, coal, and catalyst particles is
mon occurrence in natural and industrial settings. They are important since
a large fraction of the materials handled and processed in the chemical, metallur-
gical, pharmaceutical, and food-processing industries are granular in nature. The
mechanics of these materials’flows is not well understood. This book describes the
theories for granular flow based mainly on continuum models, although alternative
discrete models are also discussed briefly. The level is appropriate for advanced
undergraduates or beginning graduate students. The goal is to inform the reader
about observed phenomena and some available models and their ings
and to visit some issues that remain unresolved. There is a selection of problems
at the end of the chapters to encourage exploration, and extensive references are
given.
K. Kesava Rao is a professor of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of
Science in Bangalore. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and
the author of numerous archival publications. His primary area of research after
receiving his . from the University of Houston has been the flow of granular
materials.
Prabhu R. Nott is a professor of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of
Science in Bangalore. He has held visiting positions at Caltech and the Univer-
sity of California–San Diego after receiving his . from Princeton. He is the
author of numerous archival publications. His primary research concerns the flow
and dynamics plex fluids, such as dry granular materials and particlulate
suspensions.
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CAMBRIDGE SERIES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Series Editor:
Arvind Varma, Purdue University
Editorial Board:
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