Dr. Hassan Farhat received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Higher Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Varna, Bulgaria. He finished a second M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. During his Ph.D., he worked on numerical simulations of multiphase and multicomponent fluids as a platform for the study of Colloidal suspensions using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). He is currently working as Engineering Specialist in the automotive industry and part time faculty at Wayne State University.

Dr. Joon Sang Lee received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University. During his Ph.D. he worked on large eddy simulation of turbulent flows with heat transfer. Before he joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea as a professor he was Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), complex flows and biological (rheological) flows. Since 2004 he has published more than 40 journal articles collaborating with National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University and University of Maryland.

Dr. Sasidhar Kondaraju received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad with distinction. He finished his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. During his Ph.D., he worked on numerical simulations of nano-particles suspended in fluid medium to observe their effect on heat transfer enhancement in nanofluids. After finishing his Ph.D., he worked for one year as a research associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, and then as a research professor in Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea fortwo years. Presently he is an INSPIRE faculty at IIT Delhi.

Provides an efficient LBM based numerical model for the study of colloids and in particular emulsions and biological fluids

Presents three novel schemes for the improvement of the multi-phase LBM manely the migrating multi-block, surfactant covered droplets and suppression of coalescence with attached pseudo-code

Explores a large variety of physics of fluids, such as

buoyancy, shear lift, coalescence, droplets deformation, aggregation and disaggregation and rheology of emulsions

Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Overview of Related Studies.- 3. Accelerated Lattice Boltzmann Method.- 4. Hybrid LBM for Surfactant-Covered Droplets.- 5. Suppressing the Coalescence in the LBM: Colloids Rheology.- 6. Non-Uniform Interfacial Tension LBM for RBC Modeling.- Appendix.- References.- Index.