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Overview

Christine M. Hrenya is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and works primarily in the field of engineering.

Their research focuses on computational mechanics, with notable contributions in subfields such as computational mechanics, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, and environmental engineering.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics
  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Material Dynamics and Properties

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Powder Technology
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • AIChE Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Key papers authored or coauthored by Christine M. Hrenya include:

  • "An error-controlled adaptive time-stepping method for particle advancement in coupled CFD-DEM simulations," 2020, Powder Technology
  • "Toward general regime maps for cohesive-particle flows: Force versus energy-based descriptions and relevant dimensionless groups," 2021, AIChE Journal
  • "Experimental validation of the extraction of a particle-particle cohesion model (square-force) from simple bulk measurements (defluidization in a rheometer)," 2022, Chemical Engineering Science
  • "Very small-scale, segregating-fluidized-bed experiments: A dataset for CFD-DEM validation and uncertainty quantification," 2022, AIChE Journal
  • "Heat and momentum transfer to a particle in a laminar boundary layer," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Christine M. Hrenya frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Casey Q. LaMarche
  • Hariswaran Sitaraman
  • Deepthi Vaidhynathan
  • Thomas Häuser
  • Jordan Musser

Best Publications

  • Effects of particle‐phase turbulence in gas‐solid flows

    Christine M. Hrenya;Jennifer L. Sinclair

  • Comparison of soft-sphere models to measurements of collision properties during normal impacts

    A.B. Stevens;C.M. Hrenya

  • Enskog theory for polydisperse granular mixtures. I. Navier-Stokes order transport.

    Vicente Garzó;James W. Dufty;Christine M. Hrenya

  • Kinetic temperatures for a granular mixture

    Steven R. Dahl;Christine M. Hrenya;Vicente Garzó;James W. Dufty

  • The Clustering Instability in Rapid Granular and Gas-Solid Flows

    William D. Fullmer;Christine M. Hrenya

  • Comparison of low Reynolds number k−ε turbulence models in predicting fully developed pipe flow

    C.M. Hrenya;E.J. Bolio;D. Chakrabarti;J.L. Sinclair

  • Enskog kinetic theory for monodisperse gas–solid flows

    V. Garzó;Sudheer Tenneti;Shankar Subramaniam;C. M. Hrenya

  • Experimental segregation profiles in bubbling gas‐fluidized beds

    Gustavo G. Joseph;José Leboreiro;Christine M. Hrenya;Andrea R. Stevens

  • Enskog theory for polydisperse granular mixtures. II. Sonine polynomial approximation.

    Vicente Garzó;Christine M. Hrenya;James W. Dufty

  • Size segregation in gas–solid fluidized beds with continuous size distributions

    S.R. Dahl;C.M. Hrenya

  • On the role of non-equipartition in the dynamics of rapidly flowing granular mixtures

    J. E. Galvin;S. R. Dahl;C. M. Hrenya

  • Simulations of heat transfer to solid particles flowing through an array of heated tubes

    A. B. Morris;Zhiwen Ma;S. Pannala;C. M. Hrenya

  • Direct numerical simulation of gas–solid suspensions at moderate Reynolds number: Quantifying the coupling between hydrodynamic forces and particle velocity fluctuations

    S. Tenneti;R. Garg;C.M. Hrenya;R.O. Fox

  • Cluster characteristics of Geldart group B particles in a pilot-scale CFB riser. II. Polydisperse systems

    Jia Wei Chew;Roy Hays;John G. Findlay;Ted M. Knowlton

  • Simulations of a binary-sized mixture of inelastic grains in rapid shear flow.

    R. Clelland;C. M. Hrenya

  • Quantitative assessment of fine-grid kinetic-theory-based predictions of mean-slip in unbounded fluidization

    William D. Fullmer;Christine M. Hrenya

  • A conductive heat transfer model for particle flows over immersed surfaces

    A. B. Morris;S. Pannala;Zhiwen Ma;C. M. Hrenya

  • Axial segregation in bubbling gas-fluidized beds with Gaussian and lognormal distributions of Geldart Group B particles

    Jia Wei Chew;Jeffrey R. Wolz;Christine M. Hrenya

  • The influence of binary drag laws on simulations of species segregation in gas-fluidized beds

    José Leboreiro;Gustavo G. Joseph;Christine M. Hrenya;Dale M. Snider

  • Method of quantifying surface roughness for accurate adhesive force predictions

    Casey Q. LaMarche;Stuart Leadley;Peiyuan Liu;Kevin M. Kellogg

  • Discrete-particle simulations of cohesive granular flow using a square-well potential

    Michael W. Weber;David K. Hoffman;Christine M. Hrenya

  • Computational Granular Dynamics - Models and Algorithms, Thorsten Pöschel and Thomas Schwager, Springer, 2005

    Christine Hrenya

Frequent Co-Authors

Jia Wei Chew
Jia Wei Chew Chalmers University of Technology
Robert H. Davis
Robert H. Davis University of Colorado Boulder
Alan W. Weimer
Alan W. Weimer University of Colorado Boulder
Rodney O. Fox
Rodney O. Fox Iowa State University
Sreekanth Pannala
Sreekanth Pannala Saudi Arabia Basic Industries (United States)
Ricky D. Wildman
Ricky D. Wildman University of Nottingham
Sankaran Sundaresan
Sankaran Sundaresan Princeton University
John R. Grace
John R. Grace University of British Columbia
Michael S. Detamore
Michael S. Detamore University of Oklahoma
Jonathan M. Huntley
Jonathan M. Huntley Loughborough University

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