Mass transfer from fluids flowing through porous media
Contaminant removal commonly involves forcing a fluid through a sorption column – a confined tube filled with porous material capable of removing certain components of...
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Contaminant removal commonly involves forcing a fluid through a sorption column – a confined tube filled with porous material capable of removing certain components of...
Pre-filled medical syringes (or vials) are prepared via an automated process that require drastic control measures. Indeed, during their preparation, small particles may find their...
Droplet coalescence is a crucial feature of many industrial and natural processes. The focus here is on exciting emerging applications such as reactive inkjet printing....
Nature and industry abound with examples of highly porous, fibrous materials embedded in a viscous fluid. Examples include the cellular cytoskeleton, scaffolds for tissue engineering,...
Droplets are a fascinating and challenging area of fluid dynamics. Their interactions with each other, with surfaces, films and particles, are important to numerous natural...
The project will combine accurate experimental work in a brand new laboratory with modelling using the state-of-the-art finite element software. The newly equipped lab will form part of UKAEA's new...
Impinging jets are used in a wide range of process engineering applications; such as tunnelling operations, paint spraying and cavitation drilling. Liquid jets are also used...
Sequentially stretched film casting is an essential industrial process for the manufacture of thin polymer films used for a wide range of packaging, imaging, electronic,...
The advent of 3D printing with metal powders has opened up a new era in manufacturing technology and is driving demand for fine, highly spherical...
Density currents, driven by the density contrast between two fluids, are an important class of geophysical flow, pertinent to atmospheric, terrestrial, deep marine and inner...