Department hosts book launch event

Stelios Rigopoulos’ new book "Population Balance of Particles in Flows: From Aerosols to Crystallisation", recently published by Cambridge University Press, was presented in a book launch event that took place in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Professor Mike Lowe, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering  introduced the event, followed by a short talk from Dr Li Shen who has applied the methods described in the book.

The population balance methodology provides a powerful framework for studying polydisperse entities such as aerosols, crystals and bubbles. This self-contained and accessible book explains how this theoretical framework can be employed across a wide range of scientific, engineering and environmental problems.

The methodology is explained step by step, showing readers how to use these techniques by formulating the population balance problem, choosing models and implementing appropriate solution methods. Particular focus is given to the coupling of the population balance with fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in both laminar and turbulent flows.

Applications of the population balance methodology are explored in case studies including nanoparticle synthesis, soot formation and crystallisation, and sample open source code is provided. This book will be valuable to researchers across a range of disciplines including chemical and mechanical engineering, physics and environmental science and can be used as a resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

The book is available in the Library in both physical and electronic format. The codes developed in Dr Rigopoulos' group for solving the population balance have been released as open source on GitHub.