Table of Contents |
pt. I | Invited Lectures | |
| Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Applications to Weather Forecast and Climate Change / Leonardo Trujillo | 3 |
| Turbulent Diffusion of Heat at High Rayleigh Numbers / Joseph J. Niemela | 37 |
| Numerical Simulation of Sliding Drops on an Inclined Solid Surface / Dominique Legendre | 47 |
| Fluids in Cosmology / Jaime Klapp | 71 |
| Fluid Mechanics and Systems Biology for Understanding the Cosmic Distribution of Life: A Review / Julian Chela-Flores | 107 |
| The Impact of Computational Fluid Mechanics on Cancer Research / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 121 |
| Growth of Bubbles in Reservoirs and Its Consequences on the Foam Formation / Abraham Medina | 141 |
| Theoretical Physics of Granular Fluids and Solids / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 165 |
| Shock Structure and Acoustic Waves in a Supersonic Jet / Jose Manuel Alvarado Reyes | 193 |
| Complex Fluids, Soft Matter and the Jamming Transition Problem / Leonardo Trujillo | 211 |
| A Multiphase Approach to Model Blood Flow in Micro-Tubes / J. B. Moreno | 235 |
| Perspective: The Breakup of Liquid Jets and the Formation of Droplets / Ian M. Hutchings | 249 |
| Experimental Investigation of Thermal Diffusion in Binary Fluid Mixtures / Humberto Cabrera | 259 |
| Stellar Mass Accretion Rates from Fragmentation of a Rotating Core / Miguel Zavala | 271 |
| Biocompatible Treatment of Extra Heavy Oil Produced in Venezuela / Victor J. Andrades-Grassi | 289 |
| Dynamical Behaviour of As(V) and Se(IV) Adsorption in Biofilters: Analysis of Dimensions, Flux and Removal Percentage / Elizabeth Teresita Romero-Guzman | 297 |
pt. II | Drops, Particles and Waves | |
| The Geometry of Drop-Formed Vortex Rings / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 307 |
| Hydrodynamics of Multiple Coalescence Collisions of Liquid Drops: From the Modelling of the Coalescence Phenomenon to Flocculation of Drops in 3D Using the SPH Formalism / Alejandro Acevedo-Malave | 315 |
| A Three-Dimensional SPH Approach for Modelling the Collision Process Between Liquid Drops: The Formation of Clusters of Unequal-Sized Drops / Alejandro Acevedo-Malave | 325 |
| Numerical Simulations of Freely Oscillating Drops / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 335 |
| Brownian Dynamics Simulation by Reticular Mapping Matrix Method / Eric Plaza | 345 |
| Faraday Wave Patterns on a Triangular Cell Network / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 357 |
pt. III | Multiphase and Multicomponent Flow | |
| Gas-Liquid-Solid Volumetric Phase Distribution Estimation in a Cold Slurry Bubble Column System for Hydro-Conversion Processes / Solange C. Araujo | 369 |
| Feasibility of Slug Flow Simulation Using the Commercial Code CFX / Carlos Araujo | 379 |
| Heavy Oil Transportation as a Solid-Liquid Dispersion / L. Alvarez | 389 |
| Comprehensive Evaluation of Gas-Liquid Cyclonic Separation Technologies / Ramon Cabello | 397 |
| Geometric Design Optimization of a Prototype Axial Gas-Liquid Cyclonic Separator / William Blanco | 409 |
| Effect of Hydrotreating Reaction Conditions on Viscosity, API Gravity and Specific Gravity of Maya Crude Oil / Joaquin L. Brito | 423 |
| Mechanistic Model for Eccentric Annular Gas-Liquid Flow in Horizontal Pipelines / Jose Colmenares | 431 |
| Scaling Properties in the Adsorption of Ionic Polymeric Surfactants on Generic Nanoparticles of Metallic Oxides by Mesoscopic Simulation / Eduardo Nahmad-Achar | 443 |
| Effect of Mixtures of Polysorbate 80 and Low Molecular Weight Alcohols on Density and °API Gravity of Treated Venezuelan Extra Heavy Oil / Gerardo E. Medina-Ramirez | 453 |
pt. IV | Granular and Porous-Media Flow | |
| On the Construction of a Continuous Theory for Granular Flows / Leonardo Trujillo | 463 |
| Integral Representation for Continuous Matter Fields in Granular Dynamics / Leonardo Trujillo | 473 |
| Numerical SPH Calculations of Fluid Flow Through Saturated and Non-Saturated Porous Media / Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti | 481 |
pt. V | Astrophysical and Relativistic Flow | |
| Propagation of Longitudinal Waves in Super-Radially Expanding Solar Plumes / Hailleen Varela | 499 |
| Comparing Accretion Centres Between Rotating and Turbulent Cloud Cores / Jaime Klapp | 509 |
| Statistical Methods for the Detection of Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei Using X-Ray Spectral Lines / Jose M. Ramirez | 521 |
| Reproducing the X-Ray Soft Step @ 0.9 keV Observed in the Spectrum of Ark 564 Using Reflection Models / Snell Rojas | 529 |
| Dynamics of Relativistic, Dissipative and Anisotropic Self-Gravitating Fluids / Orlenys Troconis | 535 |
| Hydrodynamic Version of the Equation of Motion of a Charged Complex Scalar Field / Tonatiuh Matos | 545 |