ABSTRACT: Lattice Boltzmann methods, due to their amenability to parallelization and ability to handle geometrically complex boundaries, are appealing for simulating flows with particles, droplets, and bubbles when experimental observations and manipulations are not possible. This talk will present recent advances in the use of these methods for simulating droplet coalescence and particle motion in confined geometries. It will also examine the development of methods that model key physicochemical phenomena to provide new insights into multiphase transport phenomena in porous media.
Bio-sketch:
Dr.
Orest
Shardt
is
an
NSERC
postdoctoral
fellow
at
Princeton
University.
He
received
his
BSc
(2010)
and
PhD
(2014)
degrees
in
Chemical
Engineering
from
the
University
of
Alberta.
His
research
interests
involve
multiphase
flows
in
porous
media
and
interfacial
phenomena,
such
as
Marangoni
flows,
capillarity,
wetting,
and
electrokinetics.
To
provide
insights
about
these
flow
and
interfacial
phenomena,
Dr.
Shardt
often
uses
lattice
Boltzmann
simulation
methods
running
on
high
performance
parallel
computing
platforms,
such
as
graphics
processing
units.