Code
01T01808
Duration
01 December 2008 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Computer architecture and networks
- Distributed computing
- Information sciences
- Information systems
- Programming languages
- Scientific computing
- Theoretical computer science
- Visual computing
- Other information and computing sciences
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
fingering effects
partial differential equations
micro channels
analytical and numerical methods
Project description
Chemo-hydrodynamic instabilities are triggered by auto-catalytic chemical reactions. The appearing instability results in the interface being deformed and fingers being formed. We analyze the interactions when the processes appear in micro-channels this flow mimicks the flow through capilaries in porous media. The non-Newton character of the polymeric fluids will be included.