ENTROPY OF TWO-PHASE FLOWS IN SEPARATION
E. M. Barsky
The Jerusalem College of Engineering, POB 3566, Jerusalem, 91035 Israel
eugene@jce.ac.il
Keywords: Separation, invariance, entropy, flow velocity, mineral beneficiation, mathematic model
Abstract
The new-developed approach to analyzing two-phase flow in mineral separation and beneficiation is based on the physical analogy of the flows and the perfect gas kinetic theory. The analysis from these viewpoints allowed formulation and basis of the invariants of such flows, where the key invariant is entropy of the two-phase flow, and its derivatives are potential extraction, chaotization factor and flowability. The mathematical modeling of the two-phase flow from the new points of view permits analyzing the flow using statistical mechanics techniques.
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