Modeling the hydrodynamics of multiphase flow reactors: Current status and challenges

The current trend in modeling the performance of multiphase flow reactors is to integrate detailed chemistry and transport models. The challenge is that the state of uniform flow is unstable and structures form over wide range of length and time scales. As the macro-scale flow structures determine the large-scale mixing behavior, the ability to simulate them accurately and identify design strategies to manipulate them are valuable.