10 papers
Population balance models for particulate flows in porous media:breakage and shear-induced events
Matteo Icardi, Nicodemo Di Pasquale, Eleonora Crevacore +2
Transport and particulate processes are ubiquitous in environmental, industrial and biological applications, often involving complex geometries and porous media. In this work we pr…
A Systematic Analysis of the Memory term in Coarse-Grained models: the case of the Markovian Approximation
N. Di Pasquale, T. Hudson, M. Icardi +2
The systematic development of Coarse-Grained (CG) models via the Mori-Zwanzig projector operator formalism requires the explicit description of several terms, including a determini…
Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OpenFOAM
Federico Municchi, Nicodemo di Pasquale, Marco Dentz +1
We implement the Multi-Rate Mass Transfer (MRMT) model for mobile-immobile transport in porous media within the open-source finite volume library \textsc{OpenFOAM}\reg \citep{Found…
Computational analysis of transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous materials
Gianluca Boccardo, Eleonora Crevacore, Alberto Passalacqua +1
Porous and heterogeneous materials are found in many applications from composites, membranes, chemical reactors, and other engineered materials to biological matter and natural sub…
Optimisation of crust freezing in meat processing via Computational Fluid Dynamics
Evaldas Greiciunas, Federico Municchi, Nicodemo Di Pasquale +1
In this work a numerical model for two-dimensional axisymmetric continuous freezing by impingement of processed meat or similar products in food industry moving along a conveyor be…
Macroscopic models for filtration and heterogeneous reactions in porous media
Federico Municchi, Matteo Icardi
Derivation of macroscopic models for advection-diffusion processes in the presence of dominant heterogeneous (e.g., surface) reactions using homogenisation theory or volume averagi…