This book offers an easy-to-understand introduction to the computational
mass transfer (CMT) method. On the basis of the contents of the first
edition, this new edition is characterized by the following additional
materials. It describes the successful application of this method to the
simulation of the mass transfer process in a fluidized bed, as well as
recent investigations and computing methods for predictions for the
multi-component mass transfer process. It also demonstrates the general
issues concerning computational methods for simulating the mass transfer
of the rising bubble process. This new edition has been reorganized by
moving the preparatory materials for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
and Computational Heat Transfer into appendices, additions of new
chapters, and including three new appendices on, respectively,
generalized representation of the two-equation model for the CMT,
derivation of the equilibrium distribution function in the
lattice-Boltzmann method, and derivation of the Navier-Stokes equation
using the lattice-Boltzmann model. This book is a valuable resource for
researchers and graduate students in the fields of computational
methodologies for the numerical simulation of fluid dynamics, mass
and/or heat transfer involved in separation processes (distillation,
absorption, extraction, adsorption etc.), chemical/biochemical
reactions, and other related processes.