Transport Processes
"Understanding a fluid's transport processes is the chemical engineer's key to predicting and managing it."
(Above) An example of incorporating structure in molecular simulations of complex fluid flow: 10 x 10 x 20 DPD simulation of a branched polymer in solvent. (Armstrong Group)
Transport Processes
Transport processes govern the rates at which velocity, temperature, and composition vary in a fluid. Chemical engineers study transport to be able to describe, predict, and manage this change. Research in this area includes experimental testing and analytical and computational modeling; potential applications of transport research encompass a wide variety of mechanical, chemical, and biological processes.
