Nanoparticle-laden flows via moment method: A review

The study of nanoparticle-laden multiphase flow has received much attention due to its occurrence in a wide range of industrial and natural phenomena. Many of these flows are multi-dimensional multi-species systems involving strong mass, momentum and energy transfer between carrying phase and dispersed particle phase. The purpose of the present paper is to survey some advances on our researches in this field over the last 5 years. The research includes the closure for particle general dynamic equation; the fundamental interaction between particle dynamics and flow coherent structures; theoretical analysis on nanoparticle collision rate; and the application of theoretical works in some specific problems.