Dynamics Of Orientable Particulate Suspensions: Continuum Simulations Of ‘Living’ Fluids And Meso-Scale Simulations Of Anisotropic Particle Suspensions

Two simulation techniques that are used to approach two very different suspension problems - continuum scale 'active fluids' contain living cells that can respond to external stimuli such as light; and passive fluids contain anisotropic particles whose size is small enough that non-continuum effect caused by solvent needs to be accounted for. In the first part, instability caused by hydrodynamic interaction between the living cells is probed by Fluid Particle Dynamics (FPD). In the second part, Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics (CGMD) simulation is applied to investigate the relation between microstructure of the suspension, such as orientation distribution function, particle moments to its rheological behavior, such as shear viscosity.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S., Chemical Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

Master of Science

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Chemical Engineering

Grantor

Cornell University

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Qi, Ling

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Clancy, Paulette

• Dynamic simulation
• Particulate suspension

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1813/37099

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/37099